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M87- 27, Box 6
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Architecture--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Financial institutions--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Banks and banking--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Commercial buildings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Bank facilities--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Bank buildings--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
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The Union Bank building was built ca. 1830 by William Williams. It was chartered in 1832 or 1833 under the organization of John G. Gamble. It was designed to help planters. The bank failed with the collapse of the land boom in 1837, and the bank had its banking powers suspended by a legislative act in 1843. It operated as a Freedman's bank from just after the Civil War, until 1879.
The building has been used as a church, feed store, art house, coffee house, dance studio, locksmith's shop, beauty shop, and shoe factory. Later moved in 1971 from original location on the west side of Adams, between College and Park, to just east of the Capitol on Apalachee Parkway. Added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1971 and opened as a museum in 1984.
Accompanying note: "TIME-SCARRED GEM - Time has scarred this often-called 'gem of architecture,' the old Central Bank of Florida, constructed about 1830 at 106 S. Adams St. A survey team of University architecture students, in cooperation with the America's Institute of Architecture, recommends that the [plans?] be preserved in national archives."
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Union Bank Building at 106 S. Adams St. in Tallahassee. 1960. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/262803>, accessed 25 June 2026.
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Union Bank Building at 106 S. Adams St. in Tallahassee. 1960. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/262803>
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