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Farmers Bank Building

Identification

Name

Alternative name

Farmers Deposit National Bank Building, Rockwell-Standard Building, 500 Wood Street

EBN

102782

Building type

skyscraper

Building status

demolished [destroyed]

Structural material

steel

Facade material

brick
marble
terra-cotta

Facade system

applied masonry

Facade color

white
dark red

Architectural style

beaux-arts

Main usage

commercial office

The Farmers Deposit Bank was one of the largest and tallest buildings in Pittsburgh when completed. By the 1960's the building was fast becoming obsolete. The owners reskinned the entire Beaux-arts facade with a new modernist curtain wall. Nevertheless, an anchor tenant was never found for the building and it was torn down by the late 1990's. The site is now occupied by a low structure of about 3 stories.
The lower façade contained allegorical figures by sculptor J. Massey Rhind.

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