First Union Bank
Although the First World War had a sobering effect on America, many commercial and public buildings continued to be built in the grandiose neo-classical styles that had so long dominated American architecture. H. Lansing Quick’s 1923 design for the former Peoples Savings Bank—one of the first banks founded in Yonkers—takes the form of a classical Roman temple.
U.S. Post Office
Despite demands by the local citizentry that a city of Yonkers’ size and importance deserved a more monumental building, a relatively simple neo–classical design was chosen by architect James A. Wetmore for the new 1927 U.S. Post Office built at the foot of Main Street.
In the 1920s the Nepperhan River which had played such an important part in the growth of downtown was almost completely submerged with the building of Larkin Plaza.
