With its off-center tower, this bank recalls half of Christopher Wren's composition for the Greenwich Naval Hospital, although there is no answering tower across the street. The Corn Exchange National Bank marks the eastern limit of the banking district and the last bank of consequence in the old city. Its assured and elegant historical form would have stood out among the Victorian excess and eccentricity of Bankers’ Row, then dominated by the buildings of Frank Furness. Most of these have been torn down, including the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company (1873–1875) at 316–320 Chestnut Street, the National Bank of the Republic (1883–1884) at 313 Chestnut Street, and, wildest of all, the Provident Bank (1876–1879).
Citizens Bank (Corn Exchange National Bank)
1900, Newman, Woodman and Harris; 1900 and 1929 additions, Horace Trumbauer. S. 2nd and Chestnut sts.