5948-52 Germantown Avenue
Bankers Trust Building

Images available at HSP

1982 National Register of Historic Places Inventory for Colonial Germantown Historic District:
"Commercial/residential building, c. 1900; altered as Bankers Trust Building, 1931, J. Margolies, architect; various first floor alterations, three stories, brick with pressed metal and wood trip, Georgian Revival style. --- Contributing."

Until at least 1907, a wheelwright shop stood on this site.

Additional Sources:

  • HSP: Campbell Collection (Compiled by Jane Campbell, circa 1900-1912), vol. 33, p. 162: panoramic view northwest of Haines beginning with the one-story Engles Building, and including the two-story 5944-46 building, and then this three story building (photo).

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