The National Saving And Trust Company is a historic bank building located at the corner of New York Avenue

New York Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

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 and 15th Street, NW in Downtown Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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It was designed by architect James H. Windrim

James H. Windrim

James Hamilton Windrim was a Philadelphia architect who specialized in public buildings.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he apprenticed under John Notman, and opened his own office in 1867...

 and built in 1888. The Queen Anne Style

Queen Anne Style architecture

The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century...

 building is constructed in red brick, and elaborately detailed with copper and terra cotta

Terra cotta

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. It has also been known as the National Safe Deposit Company and the National Safe Deposit Savings and Trust Company.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 on March 16, 1972, and is a contributing property

Contributing property

In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing resource or contributing property is any building, structure, or object which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district, listed locally or federally, significant...

 to the Fifteenth Street Financial Historic District.

It is currently occupied by a branch of SunTrust Banks

SunTrust Banks

SunTrust Banks, Inc., is an American bank holding company. The largest subsidiary is SunTrust Bank. It had US$172.7 billion in assets as of September 30, 2009...

, based in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia

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, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in the District of Columbia