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Germania Bank Building · 190 Bowery
Germania Bank Building
Germania Bank Building

190-194 Spring Street and Bowery, N.W. corner. Germania Bank.

IMAGE DATE1905
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Germania Bank, ca. 1905.

Robert Maynicke’s Renaissance Revival building, completed in 1899, was the third location of the Germania Bank, which was founded by a group of German-American businessmen in 1869.

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