Bank of Newark Building explained

Bank of Newark Building
Location:102 E. Main St., Newark, Delaware
Coordinates:39.6835°N -75.7492°W
Built:1845
Architecture:Greek Revival
Added:February 24, 1983
Refnum:83001345

Bank of Newark Building is a historic bank building located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1845 and is a three-story, gable-roofed brick building with a symmetrical five-bay facade and a three-story ell to the rear. It is in a restrained form of the Greek Revival style. The front facade features a portico and massive pilasters added sometime after 1929.[1]

In 2010, a second location of the popular Wilmington, DE restaurant Catherine Rooney's moved into the original section of this building.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=83001345}} National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bank of Newark Building]. December 1982. 2010-04-20 . Valerie Cesna and Betsy Bahr. National Park Service. .