Bank Street Historic District (Waterbury, Connecticut)
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Bank Street Historic District
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Griggs and Republican buildings. |
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 Location within Connecticut
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| Location | Waterbury, CT |
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| Coordinates | 41°33′10″N 73°2′28″W / 41.55278°N 73.04111°WCoordinates: 41°33′10″N 73°2′28″W / 41.55278°N 73.04111°W |
| Area | 0.25 acres (1,000 m2) |
| Built | 1883–1904 |
| Architect | Joseph A. Jackson, Robert W. Hill, Griggs and Hunt |
| Architectural style | Georgian Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, Queen Anne, eclectic |
| NRHP Reference # | 83001277 |
| Added to NRHP | 1983 |
The Bank Street Historic District is a group of four attached brick commercial buildings in different architectural styles on that street in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. They were built over a 20-year period around the end of the 19th century, when Waterbury was a prosperous, growing industrial center. In 1983 they were recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Among the four is a rare Queen Anne Style commercial building, and one of the only three Richardsonian Romanesque commercial buildings in the city. Some of Waterbury's leading architects of the time were among the designers. The four have remained intact even as later, modern development interceded between them and the contemporary buildings elsewhere downtown.
The four buildings and their respective lots occupy an area of a quarter-acre, or a thousand square meters, most of which is covered by their footprints, at 207–231 Bank Street. This is on the east side of Bank between Grand Street and the Interstate 84 viaduct. The terrain slopes slightly to the south.
The neighborhood is densely developed and urban. A large modern commercial block is across the street. Driveways on the north and south give access to parking lots behind the buildings and separate the row from other modern buildings.
At the ends of the block small rows of trees buffer both Grand and the interstate. To the northeast is a small park at Grand and South Main Street. The Bank and Grand intersection is the southeast corner of the much larger Downtown Waterbury Historic District, with a concentration of buildings from the same era as the Bank Street buildings. A block to the west are the five public and private buildings, including City Hall, originally designed by Cass Gilbert as the Waterbury Municipal Center Complex.
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