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- The Bank of Pennsylvania was established on July 17, 1780, by Philadelphia merchants to provide funds for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Its investors included George Meade & Co., with a £2,000 payment. Within a year after the Union was founded in 1781, the Bank of North America superseded the Bank of Pennsylvania. In 1793, the Bank of Pennsylvania was re-established, with a charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and branches were opened in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, and Easton. The bank collapsed in September 1857, with Thomas Allibone of the family firm Thomas Allibone & Co. serving as its president. In 1870, the only remaining piece of the bank headquarters building—one of its iconic stone columns—was moved to Adrian, Michigan, where it was erected as a Civil War Memorial in commemoration of the 84 local soldiers who died in the American Civil War.
* John Lewis Krimmel, Black Sawyers Working in front of the Bank of Pennsylvania (ca.1813) (en)
- La Banca di Pennsylvania, o Bank of Pennsylvania, era un monumentale edificio eretto a Filadelfia su disegno di Benjamin Latrobe. Si trattava di uno dei primi edifici marcatamente neoclassici di tutti gli Stati Uniti, commissionato nel 1798 e realizzato negli anni seguenti.Il palazzo, a pianta rettangolare con una cupola al centro, riprendeva le forme dei templi dell'antichità greca e romana, con due leggeri porticati ionici sui lati minori.Nel 1870 l'edificio fu demolito, causando una grave perdita per l'architettura americana. (it)
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- La Banca di Pennsylvania, o Bank of Pennsylvania, era un monumentale edificio eretto a Filadelfia su disegno di Benjamin Latrobe. Si trattava di uno dei primi edifici marcatamente neoclassici di tutti gli Stati Uniti, commissionato nel 1798 e realizzato negli anni seguenti.Il palazzo, a pianta rettangolare con una cupola al centro, riprendeva le forme dei templi dell'antichità greca e romana, con due leggeri porticati ionici sui lati minori.Nel 1870 l'edificio fu demolito, causando una grave perdita per l'architettura americana. (it)
- The Bank of Pennsylvania was established on July 17, 1780, by Philadelphia merchants to provide funds for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Its investors included George Meade & Co., with a £2,000 payment. Within a year after the Union was founded in 1781, the Bank of North America superseded the Bank of Pennsylvania. In 1870, the only remaining piece of the bank headquarters building—one of its iconic stone columns—was moved to Adrian, Michigan, where it was erected as a Civil War Memorial in commemoration of the 84 local soldiers who died in the American Civil War. (en)
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