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Madisonville Bank

Coordinates: 30°24′28″N 90°09′33″W / 30.40784°N 90.15920°W / 30.40784; -90.15920
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Madisonville Bank
Madisonville Bank is located in Louisiana
Madisonville Bank
Location400 Cedar St., Madisonville, Louisiana
Coordinates30°24′28″N 90°09′33″W / 30.40784°N 90.15920°W / 30.40784; -90.15920
Arealess than one acre
Builtc.1900,1919
NRHP reference No.00001145[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 28, 1983

The Madisonville Bank, in Madisonville, Louisiana, was built around 1900 and renovated extensively in 1919.[2]

It is located on the corner of Cedar Street and E. St. John Street, a corner also swept by Covington/Louisiana Highway 21/Louisiana Highway 1077. It was built as a two-story gable-front building with simple storefront and a corner entrance. It gained a detailed classical wraparound storefront on two sides in 1919. This includes square pilasters with Corinthian capitals defining three bays on the front and three on the side.[2]

It is questionable whether a brick dado (lower wall) on its front dates from the 1919 renovation; it seems incompatible.[2]

Its interior includes its original pressed tin ceiling and original bank vault.[2]

It is one of two architecturally significant buildings from the 1890-1920 era surviving in Madisonville; the other is a large Queen Anne house.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e National Register staff, Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation (July 1933). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Madisonville Bank". National Park Service. Retrieved March 22, 2019. With accompanying six photos from 1983