Commercial National Bank, 20 East Martin Street, Raleigh, Wake County, NC

Significance: The Commercial National Bank is a ten-story steel and reinforced concrete tri-partie form building rendered in the Gothic Revival style. Its exterior is faced with tan brick and is embellished with elaborate stone and terra-cotta Gothic style details. Its interior contains a monumental banking lobby with marble floors and banking stations under a soaring fan vaulted painted ceiling Designed by P. Thornton Mayre, a prominent Atlanta architect, and commissioned by the Commercial National Bank in 1912, this building, then the tallest and most elaborate in Raleigh, represented the aspirations of the Raleigh business community during the city's early twentieth century period of rapid urban growth and commercial expansion.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1050

Survey number: HABS NC-406

Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1959 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work

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1912 - 1980

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