19th Annual Stop the Wrecking Ball
Please join The Trenton Historical Society to celebrate Trenton history and support Restore Trenton! grants at an elegant evening in a historic space – Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 from six until nine o’clock at
THS Stop the Wrecking Ball Invite (Click here)
The Corner Historic
One West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey
Hors d’oeuvres, open bar & live music
Silent auction of items related to Trenton history
This building was planned in 1929, as Trenton embraced the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the city’s 1679 settlement. So great was the patriotic fervor that a rusticated stone bank building designed in Renaissance Revival style ended up with a Colonial Revival boardroom, to recall an 18th century tavern. A tavern isn’t the sort of image most banks want to adopt, but the board of First Mechanics Bank ~ led by former Governor Edward C. Stokes ~ came to be justly proud of the site history. Here, in a succession of taverns with better than average names, Congress met to host Lafayette as he left for France, New Jersey ratified the Constitution, and Washington sat to pen the ladies of Trenton a letter of thanks for his inaugural journey reception under arches at the Assunpink Creek bridge. Having commissioned a building that would have been at home in 15th century Florence, the bank overlaid it with a new pride in Trenton. The cornice proclaims it as “The Corner Historic,” with names and dates of the Blazing Star and City Tavern. On the South Warren side, it’s “Dedicated To The Progress Of Trenton,” with the Thirteen Stars and French Arms recalled.
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