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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Bank Block

A bank in Worcester County, Massachusetts, named in 2 atlases between 1894 and 1901.

The line reading National Bank Block in the 1894 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1894 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1894National Bank Blockthe scanned index
1901Bank Blockthe scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

Bank Block
National Bank Block

Named in the 1889 county history

The history of Worcester County was published 5 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

This bank has long been recognized as one of the best managed cooperative institutions in Massachusetts, attracting deposits from all over the state. It is finely located on the second floor of the Fitchburg Savings Bank block, where it has massive vaults and other equipment equal to those usually found in large commercial banks.

Read the chapter on Fitchburg City.

Named in the same survey

24 of 25 establishments shown

The surveyors walked Worcester County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from. See all 25 in Worcester County.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Advent Church, at Fiskdale, 10 in the 1894 atlasAdvent Church, at Fiskdale, 10church1894
The index line reading American Hotel in the 1894 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1894
The index line reading Globe Village Hotel in the 1894 atlasGlobe Village Hotelhotel1894
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1894 atlasJournal Printingprinting1894
Lancaster Mills Store Housemill1894
The index line reading Episcopal Church in the 1894 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Methodist Bpisc. Church in the 1894 atlasMethodist Epise. Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Notre Dame Church & Convent in the 1894 atlasNotre Dame Church & Conventchurch1894
The index line reading Orthodox Church in the 1894 atlasOrthodox Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Public Schools in the 1894 atlasPublic Schoolschool1894
The index line reading Unitarian Church in the 1894 atlasUnitarian Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1894 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Catholic Church in the 1901 atlasCatholie Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Champion Mills in the 1901 atlasChampion Millsmill1901
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1901 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Grove School House in the 1901 atlasGrove Schoolschool1901
The index line reading Hotel Waldo in the 1901 atlasHotel Waldohotel1901
The index line reading Dufton Bros., Satinet Mills in the 1901 atlasJufton Bros., Satinet Millmill1901
The index line reading Lafayette Hotel in the 1901 atlasLafayette Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading Massasoit Hotel in the 1901 atlasMassasoit Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading North Brookfield Journal Printing in the 1901 atlasNorth Brookfield Journal Printingprinting1901
The index line reading Opera House in the 1901 atlasOpera Houseopera house1901
The index line reading Rockwell, E. M., Woolen-mill in the 1901 atlasRoelwell, E. M. Woolen Millmill1901
The index line reading Valley Mill, Mf'g Woolen Goods in the 1901 atlasValley Mill, Mººg Woolen Goods 11mill1901

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Worcester County, Massachusetts, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.