Home Building Association Bank

Home Building Association Bank
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	6 W. Main St., Newark, Ohio
Coordinates
Built	1914
Architect	Sullivan,Louis
Architectural style	Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements, Sullivanesque
NRHP Reference #	73001495
Added to NRHP	July 02, 1973

The Home Building Association Bank (or Home Building Association Company) is a historic building located at 1 North Third Street in Newark, Ohio, and was designed by noted Chicago architect Louis Sullivan. It was one of three banks designed by Sullivan in 1914, the other two being in Grinnell, Iowa and in West Lafayette, Indiana. For this project the architect was given a narrow lot but made the building larger by making it two stories high, something that he did not typically do in his banks.

The color scheme chosen here deviates from his normal red-brown brick tapestry surface. Instead the building is covered with gray-green terra cotta slabs that are edged with typical Sullivanesque border designs. The ornamentation included a winged lion quite similar to the ones to be found in Cedar Rapids, Grinnell and Sidney. Little mention is made in the literature about Sullivan as to why these creatures populate his banks.

Also unusual is the fact that Sullivan includes his name in the tile mosaic over the front door.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1973.

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Other Louis Sullivan "jewel boxes"

• Farmers and Merchants Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin (1919)
• Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa (1913)
• Merchants' National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa (1914)
• National Farmer's Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)
• People's Federal Savings and Loan Association, Sidney, Ohio (1918)
• Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1912)
• Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, Indiana (1914)

Further reading

• Elia, Mario Manieri, Louis Henry Sullivan, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton NY, 1996
• Kvaran, Einar Einarsson, The Louis Sullivan Pilgrimage, unpublished manuscript
• Morrison, Hugh, "Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture", W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1963
• Tebben, Joseph R., "The Old Home: Louis Sullivan's Newark Bank", McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Newark OH, 2014
• Twombly, Robert, Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work, Elizabeth Sifton Books - Viking, New York, 1986
• Vinci, John, "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Stock Exchange Trading Room", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1977