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Germania Bank building is a former bank location at 190 Bowery, on the northwest corner of the intersection with Spring Street in Manhattan. Built in 1898–99 and designed in the Renaissance Revival style〔, p.47〕 by architect Robert Maynicke, it was the third home of the Germania Bank, which was established in 1869 by a group of local businessmen of German extraction. Currently a private residence, the building was designated a New York City landmark on March 29, 2005.〔 ==Description== The six-story building’s two main facades, which are clad in granite, consist of a series of bays that are identical above the first story. There are three bays facing the Bowery, one angled bay at the chamfered corner, and six bays along Spring Street. Horizontal divisions are provided by a cornice with modillions above the first story, a denticulated crown molding above the second story, and a heavy cornice above the fifth story supported by large blocks and featuring a series of cyma moldings, fillets, and ovolos. The facades are surmounted by an elaborate copper cheneau decorated with anthemia, rosettes, and waves. The rusticated base contains the building’s primary and secondary entrances, and large, round-arched fenestration that lit the main public spaces of the bank. The main entryway, located at the angled corner bay, is a monumental, projecting portico. The portico, which contains a flight of bluestone steps leading to the main doorway, features freestanding Tuscan columns, decorated with rosettes and egg-and-dart moldings, supporting a molded entablature. The paneled wood entry doors feature a carved enframent and are flanked by paneled pilasters and are topped by an arched transom light (now sealed by what appears to be a Plexiglas panel) with a molded architrave and foliated keystone and flanking, paneled spandrels. It is protected by historic, elaborate wrought-iron gates. The round-arched, first-story windows are deeply set and the façade rustication is continued on the returns. The sills are slightly recessed and sit above concave stone panels. Voussoirs surround the arches. The sash and transoms, which are presently sealed with what appear to be Plexiglas panels, look to be historic one-over-one wood sash. They are separated by carved wood mullions and transom bars. The secondary entryway, located at street level facing the Bowery, features a granite portico with freestanding Tuscan columns decorated with rosettes and egg-and-dart moldings, supporting an entablature decorated with triglyphs and guttae. The entryway is filled with paneled, wood-and-glass doors19 covered with elaborate wrought-iron gates. The upper stories feature banded stonework, paired fenestration from the second through the fifth floors, and projecting, multi-story piers from the third through the fifth floors on molded bases and carved caps with egg-and-dart moldings. Paneled spandrels separate the third-through the fifth-floor fenestration, which contains one-over-one wood or steel sash. The sixth story displays pairs of round-arched windows with voussoirs that spring from molded bands and projecting keystones. The one-over-one sash appears to be made of wood. The brick north elevation contains what appear to be historic, one-over-one wood sash with historic steel shutters. The west elevation consists of a plain brick wall. The roof contains brick parapet walls, bulkheads, and chimney, non-historic wood and metal fences, and a wood water tank on a steel-framed base. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Germania Bank Building (New York City)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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