Name/Title
Brotherhood State BankEntry/Object ID
2016.019.004Description
Brotherhood State Bank
101 East Bay Street
Architects: J.H. Hawkins (original, 1902); Holmes & Ehmann (addition, 1919)
Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank (Bostwick Building).
Completed in 1902 within a year of the Great Fire of 1901. In 1880, this site held the First National Bank building (founded in 1874 as Florida's earliest national bank). One of its first directors was Dr. William M. Bostiwick (later served as Mayor of Jacksonville) and General Francis E. Spinner (Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson and Grant).
The bank failed in 1903 and the building was purchased bt the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank, a newly organized bank whose first vice president was Bostwick's son, William M., Jr.
In 1919, the building expanded to its present size. It closed in 1922 and the building was taken over by Brotherhood State Bank and Savings (which failed and closed in 1924).
On November 27, 1931, W.M. Bostwick, Jr., repaid all of his depositors who had lost money when the Guaranty Trust and Savings Bank closed eight years earlier. Since then the building has been used as office space under the continuous ownership of the Bostwick family.
H.J. Klutho maintained his offices in the building during the final years of his career, from 1944 - 1960.
As of April 2015, the building is being transformed into the Cowford Chop House restaurant.Collection
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Category 08: Communication Objects