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Queens County Savings Bank

Coordinates: 40°43′21″N 73°49′14″W / 40.72250°N 73.82056°W / 40.72250; -73.82056
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Queens County Savings Bank
Queens County Savings Bank, 2008
Queens County Savings Bank is located in New York City
Queens County Savings Bank
Queens County Savings Bank is located in New York
Queens County Savings Bank
Queens County Savings Bank is located in the United States
Queens County Savings Bank
Location75-44 Main Street, Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York City
Coordinates40°43′21″N 73°49′14″W / 40.72250°N 73.82056°W / 40.72250; -73.82056
Arealess than one acre
Built1954
ArchitectCarlson, Harold O.
Architectural styleGeorgian Revival
NRHP reference No.05000620 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 16, 2005
The clock tower of the Queens County Savings Bank building in 2021

Queens County Savings Bank is a historic bank building, that used to house the Kew Gardens Hills branch of the Queens Library, located on Main Street in the Kew Gardens Hills section of the New York City borough of Queens. It was built in 1953-1954 to resemble Independence Hall in the Georgian Revival style. It is a brick building that consists of a tall central tower with flanking two-story, side-gabled wings.

It is four bays wide and has a six-stage, square tower featuring a second story Palladian window. The tower has an octagonal belfry topped by a smaller cupola and spire.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Kathleen A. Howe (February 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Queens County Savings Bank". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-01-16. See also:"Accompanying 22 photos".
  3. ^ "Queens Bank Expands: Kew Gardens Branch Is Copy of Independence Hall". The New York Times. January 16, 1954. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
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