4643 Frankford Avenue - Western Savings Fund / First Pennsylvania Bank Facades

[Western Saving Fund Society]
Frankford Office: 4643-4645 Frankford Avenue
(Willing, Sims & Talbutt, Architects)
Willing, Sims & Talbutt Collection, Athenaeum of Philadelphia.
Local ID #: 124-P-021-008

Bank of Louisville -
(Library of Congress)

I have to remark that I can remember when the facade of 4643 Frankford Avenue as the Western Savings Fund building looked a lot like the classic Bank of Louisville (built 1830 - Library of Congress photo).

That then First Pennsylvania bank took over the building and installed the present windowless two tone blue polished brick facade in the early to mid 1960s.  Have just found a partial photo of the original facade (above). 

The new design made no discernible structural changes in the front of the building but merely boxed in the two main columns, and exterior porch, and bricked the whole thing over.