No. 21518 Dorchester Savings Bank building, 572 Columbia Road, 2021
4996 Trustees of the Dorchester Savings Bank 1850.
The Dorchester Savings Bank was incorporated in 1850. The president was William Richardson, and the treasurer was Charles Howe. The trustees included Edward Pierce, Thomas Groom, Edmund Pitt Tileston, Ebenezer Eaton, Oliver Hall, Nathaniel F. Safford, Robert Vose, Joseph Dix and Nathan Carruth.
The bank building pictured above was built in 1929. The façade of the two-story brick and stone building contains three bays divided by two-story fluted pilasters with floral abstract relief carvings in capitals. The bays on the left and right are capped by floral bands and dentil course molding. The center bay probably had the same floral bank at one time. A decorative stringcourse with a wave motif is set above the carved stone panel with the name: Dorchester Savings Bank.
No. 14167 Dorchester Savings Bank corner Kenwood & Washington Street, circa 1940
No. 18697 Dorchester Savings Bank, 570 Washington Street March 29, 1932.
No. 18695 562-570 Washington Street, 8 Kenwood Street 11-22-2018
10383 Matchbook cover from Dorchester Savings Bank. Gives main office location as 572 Columbia Road, Uphams Corner and branches at 507 River Street, Mattapan, and 570 Washington Street, Codman Square. Tel. Geneva 6-1500.
The bank changed its name to First American Bank for Savings in 1976 and changed its organization type to stock savings bank in 1986. The First American Bank for Savings and the Edward Everett Savings Bank merged in 1985. It later operated as part of the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, which became part of Citizens Bank.