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

Bank Building

A bank in Bristol County, Massachusetts, named in 4 atlases between 1889 and 1916.

The line reading Bank Building in the 1889 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1889 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1889Bank Buildingthe scanned index
1894Bank Buildingthe scanned index
1899Bank Buildingthe scanned index
1916National Bank Buildingthe 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 Building
National Bank Building

Named in the 1883 county history

The history of Bristol County was published 6 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

In March, 1831, the Fairhaven Insurance Company and the Fairhaven Bank were chartered by the State, naming as incorporators the same group of Fairhaven whaling merchants. Both the bank and the insurance company had capitals of $100,000; the bank capital was increased in 1836 to $200,000, and in 1923 it was $120,000. When this bank and the Marine Insurance Company were organized, Fairhaven was almost as largely interested in whaling ventures as the village across the river, and the same motives and considerations of business needs caused the merchants to establish these mutually serviceable agencies. The bank building now occupied by the Savings Bank was built in 1831, and here the Fairhaven Bank did business for forty-five years.

Read the chapter on Fairhaven Town.

Named in the same survey

24 establishments

The surveyors walked Bristol 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.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Baptist Church in the 1889 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Free Evangel. Church in the 1889 atlasFree Evangel. Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Grace Episcopal Church in the 1889 atlasGrace Episcopal Churchchurch1889
The index line reading High School in the 1889 atlasHigh Schoolschool1889
The index line reading International Hotel in the 1889 atlasInternational Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Miller's Block in the 1889 atlasMiller's Blockmill1889
The index line reading Old Colony R. R. Depot & Round H in the 1889 atlasOld Colony R. R. Depot & Round Hdepot1889
The index line reading Opera House in the 1889 atlasOpera Houseopera house1889
The index line reading Public Schools in the 1889 atlasPublic Schoolsschool1889
The index line reading Robinsom, E. A., Jewelry Shops in the 1889 atlasRobinson, E. A., Jewelry Shopsshop1889
The index line reading Totten, T., & Co., Jewelry Shop in the 1889 atlasTotten, T., & Co., Jewelry Shopshop1889
The index line reading Union Power Co's Shops in the 1889 atlasUnion Power Co's Shopsshop1889
The index line reading Universalist Church in the 1889 atlasUniversalist Churchchurch1889
The index line reading Wamsutta Hotel in the 1889 atlasWamsutta Hotelhotel1889
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1894 atlasCongregational Churchchurch1894
The index line reading Gilmore, E. D., & Co., Jewelry Shop in the 1894 atlasGilmore, E. D., & Co., Jewelry Shopshop1894
The index line reading Simmons, B. F., Jewelry Shops in the 1894 atlasSimmons, R. F., Jewelry Shopsshop1894
The index line reading Briggs, E.A, & Co., Grist Mill in the 1899 atlasBriggs, E.A, & Co., Grist Millmill1899
The index line reading Central Hotel in the 1899 atlasCentral Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Kelly, J., Marble Shop in the 1899 atlasKelly, J., Marble Shopshop1899
The index line reading Orr, J., Bleachery and Dye Works, 10 in the 1899 atlasOrr, J., Bleachery and Dye Works, 10works1899
The index line reading News, Printing in the 1916 atlasDaily News Printingprinting1916
The index line reading Police Station in the 1916 atlasPolice Stationice house1916
The index line reading Post Office in the 1916 atlasPost Officeice house1916

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Bristol 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.