Royal Bank of Canada Building, Havana

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| architectural_style = Neoclassical

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| location = Habana Vieja

| address = Calle Aguiar 367

| location_city = 20px Ciudad de La Habana

| location_country = {{Flagicon|CUB}} Cuba

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| start_date = 1917

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| elevator_count = 2{{cite web

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| architect = Godfrey Davenport

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Royal Bank of Canada Building, Havana is a Neoclassical-style bank building located at corner of Calles Aguiar and Obrapia in Habana Vieja. The ground floor was dedicated to the bank, the other floors to offices that were rented; a floor was added (seventh floor) for a semiprivate restaurant and club.

Built in 1917, the building was designed by New York-based firm Purdy and Henderson, Engineers, but supervised by Sumner Godfrey Davenport, who would subsequently join the bank in Havana in 1920. In the same year Davenport moved to Canada to become the bank's chief architect.{{cite web|url=http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/819|title=Davenport, Sumner Godfrey - Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada|website=dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org}}

This building would be one of Royal Bank of Canada's 65 branches that existed in the 1920s and 24 by the time it was forced to close in 1960.{{cite web|url=http://postalhistorycorner.blogspot.com/2013/03/1939-royal-bank-of-canada-and-rocket.html|title=Postal History Corner: 1939 The Royal Bank of Canada and Rocket Mail|first=|last=Philcovex|date=4 March 2013|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/rbc-weighs-return-to-attractive-cuba-market-as-us-relations-warm/article22150173/|title=RBC weighs return to ‘attractive’ Cuba market as U.S. relations warm|publisher=|via=The Globe and Mail}}