The historic WCIS Bank building in Worcester, Massachusetts

The WCIS Bank is a historic building at 365 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is fashioned out of two separate buildings that served as homes for the Worcester County Institution for Savings, the county's first chartered savings bank founded in 1828. The older part of the building, from c. 1851, is at the corner of Foster and Norwich Street. It was built as a joint venture between the bank's parent, the Worcester Bank, and the Boston and Worcester Rail Road.

This granite structure is three stories high and decorated in Italianate styling. It originally featured windows with broken-scrolled pediments on the second story and bracketed flat hoods over the windows on the third story, though these details were compromised by stuccoing done in the 1960s. In 1906, the WCIS moved to a newly-constructed building at the corner of Main and Foster, which features large Doric columns in the center of its main facade.

Needing additional space, the bank repurchased the Foster Street building and joined the two together in 1953. The bank remained in association with its parent organization until 1903 and was merged into the First National Bank of Boston in 1994. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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