Poughkeepsie Trust Company

Poughkeepsie, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Poughkeepsie Trust Company building, located on Main Street in Poughkeepsie, New York, is a six-story Beaux-Arts structure designed by local architect Percival Lloyd and completed in 1906. Conceived as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper, it cost $100,000 to construct and features an ornately carved stone facade employing brick, steel, and stone in its interior framing. The three-bay facade displays characteristic Beaux-Arts ornament: masks adorn the cornice, molded egg-and-dart modillion blocks and leafy swags embellish the upper stories, while quoined pilasters frame the composition; the ground level is heavily quoined with intricate wrought-iron detailing and Doric columns. The interior housed a Mycenaean marble banking room with mahogany furniture, brass fittings, and bronze lighting on the ground floor, an early electric elevator, and a pioneering "ladies' corridor" enabling separate access from the women's restroom. The New York City Water Supply Commission, planning the Catskill Aqueduct, occupied the fifth and half the fourth floors. Joined to the adjacent Dutchess County Court House, the building now serves as headquarters for the district attorney's office and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.