Rochester Savings Bank

{{short description|Historic commercial building in New York, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Rochester Savings Bank

| nrhp_type =

| image = Rochester Savings Bank.jpg

| caption = Rochester Savings Bank, October 2012

| location = 40 Franklin St., Rochester, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|43|9|31|N|77|36|18|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = New York#USA

| built = 1927

| architect = McKim, Mead & White; Warner, J. Foster

| architecture = Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Byzantine Revival

| added = March 16, 1972

| area = {{convert|0.6|acre}}

| refnum = 72000857{{NRISref|2009a}}

}}

Rochester Savings Bank is a historic bank building located at Rochester in Monroe County, New York. It is a four-story, V-shaped structure, sheathed in Kato stone from Minnesota. It was designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1927 to house the Rochester Savings Bank. The building's banking room interior features murals painted by noted artist Ezra Winter.{{cite web | url = https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ | title = Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)| publisher = New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation| format = Searchable database| access-date = 2016-05-01}} Note: This includes {{cite web | url = https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=29859&q=false | title = National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Rochester Savings Bank | access-date = 2016-05-01 | author = Louise A. Klinke| format = PDF| date=March 1971}} and [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=29857&q=false Accompanying three photographs]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

In 2011, the building was acquired by a group called Rochester Historic Ventures, which then set out to seek occupants that would allow the building to return to public use.{{cite news|last=Dougherty|first=Nate|title=RIT to open entrepreneurship center downtown|url=http://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=192871|newspaper=Rochester Business Journal|access-date=October 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145838/http://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=192871|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=dead|location=Rochester, New York|date=October 22, 2012}}

In October 2012, Rochester Institute of Technology announced the creation of a Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, to be housed in the Rochester Savings Bank building. The university planned to spend $3–5 million on renovations, eventually resulting in a multidisciplinary center and multiuse venue for RIT students. In 2016, after the lengthy renovation of the building, the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship opened.{{Cite news|last=Volk |first=Veronica |url=http://wxxinews.org/post/officials-celebrate-opening-rits-cue-headquarters|title = Officials Celebrate Opening of RIT's CUE Headquarters |work=WXXI News |date=25 April 2016}}