Cashier's House
Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania
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Erected as a residence for the cashier of a branch of the U.S. Bank of Pennsylvania, which occupied the adjacent building. Completed 1839.
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
Completed in 1839, the Cashier's House was built as an elegant residence for the officer who managed a branch of the U.S. Bank of Pennsylvania in Erie. The bank stood in the turbulent final years of America's early banking wars, when the Second Bank of the United States had lost its federal charter and reorganized under state law. Its refined Greek Revival architecture reflects the prosperity and ambition of a growing Great Lakes port town.
Why it matters
The house is a surviving monument to the fierce national debate over banking and federal power that defined Jacksonian America and shaped the country's financial system.
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