Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank (1891)

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank

| nrhp_type = nrhp

| image = 1891 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank.jpg

| caption = The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank from the northeast

| location = Minneapolis, Minnesota

| coordinates = {{coord|44|58|43.26|N|93|16|3.39|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Minnesota#USA

| area =

| built = 1891

| architect = Franklin B. Long; William Kenyon

| architecture = Classical Revival, Beaux-Arts

| added = January 12, 1984

| refnum = 84001419 {{NRISref|2007a}}

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The 1891 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, is a Beaux-Arts style building that formerly served as the headquarters of Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank. The building is now home to The Downtown Cabaret, a strip club. Architecture critic Larry Millett writes, "If you step inside for a view of the, ahem, scenery, you'll discover a glass dome that once illuminated a 'ladies banking lobby' but is now the scene of activities not everyone would consider ladylike."{{cite book |last=Millett |first=Larry |author-link=Larry Millett |title=AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul |year=2007 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-540-5 |pages=35 }}

The building was designed by the locally prominent firm of Long and Kees as a one-story building. Long and Kees usually preferred the then-popular Richardsonian Romanesque style for their buildings, but deviated from this style for the bank. In 1908 architect William Kenyon designed a second-story addition that enlarged the façade while retaining the Beaux-Arts style. The exterior is faced with white limestone, with five piers of rusticated stone supporting fluted Corinthian pilasters.{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/hpc/landmarks/4th_St_S_115_Farmers_and_Mechanics_Savings_Bank.asp|title=Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank|publisher=Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission|date=2006|access-date=2007-09-03}} In 1942, the bank moved to a new location at 88 S. 6th St. at the corner of Sixth and Marquette. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.