Germania Bank Building (New York)
Coordinates: 40°43′16.13″N 73°59′38.57″W / 40.7211472°N 73.9940472°W
Germania Bank building is a former bank location at 190 Bowery, on the northwest corner of the intersection with Spring Street in Manhattan. Built in 1898–99 and designed in the Renaissance Revival style by architect Robert Maynicke, it was the third home of the Germania Bank, which was established in 1869 by a group of local businessmen of German extraction. Currently a private residence, the building was designated a New York City landmark on March 29, 2005.
The six-story building’s two main facades, which are clad in granite, consist of a series of bays that are identical above the first story. There are three bays facing the Bowery, one angled bay at the chamfered corner, and six bays along Spring Street. Horizontal divisions are provided by a cornice with modillions above the first story, a denticulated crown molding above the second story, and a heavy cornice above the fifth story supported by large blocks and featuring a series of cyma moldings, fillets, and ovolos. The facades are surmounted by an elaborate copper cheneau decorated with anthemia, rosettes, and waves.
The rusticated base contains the building’s primary and secondary entrances, and large, round-arched fenestration that lit the main public spaces of the bank. The main entryway, located at the angled corner bay, is a monumental, projecting portico. The portico, which contains a flight of bluestone steps leading to the main doorway, features freestanding Tuscan columns, decorated with rosettes and egg-and-dart moldings, supporting a molded entablature. The paneled wood entry doors feature a carved enframent and are flanked by paneled pilasters and are topped by an arched transom light (now sealed by what appears to be a Plexiglas panel) with a molded architrave and foliated keystone and flanking, paneled spandrels. It is protected by historic, elaborate wrought-iron gates. The round-arched, first-story windows are deeply set and the façade rustication is continued on the returns.
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