Maryland Historical Trust, # CARR-195:
The stylish Uniontown Bank was built in 1907 and retains all of its original fixtures as a banking establishment. The neoclassical style of the bank is representative of the turn-of-the-century banks throughout the country. This small town example is highlighted by its block-like massing and classical revival architectural details. Prominent features of the
design are the flat-arch stone window lintels with keystones and flaired ends, the pedimented door frame with columns accentuating the front entrance, and the heavy dentil cornice. The vault for the bank came from York, Pennsylvania and was hauled from the Linwood depot to Uniontown by a five-horse team run by Snader Devilbiss. The bank was built by the Carroll County Savings Bank which had started in Uniontown in 1871. Its first location was in a room in Starr's Store at the northeast corner of "The Forks" (3484 Uniontown Road). It later moved into a frame building at the site of the Uniontown Elementary School. The Carroll County Savings Bank was bought by the Taneytown Bank (formerly the Birnie Trust Company) in 1951. The bank operated it Uniontown branch facility out of this structure until 1979. With the construction of its new building farther west in Uniontown, the Taneytown Bank generously donated the historic bank building to the Historic Uniontown, Inc. This lot was also the site of Christ's Hall, erected by Jacob H. Christ for the use of the Sons of Temperance, an organization active in Uniontown from 1850 to 1873.
