The Stevensville Bank is a historic building located near the center of Stevensville

Stevensville, Maryland

Stevensville is a census-designated place in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and is the county's most populous place among both CDPs and municipalities. The Stevensville Historic District is one of only two registered historic districts in the county, the other being the Centreville Historic...

, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

, United States

United States

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, and is in the Stevensville Historic District

Stevensville Historic District

The Stevensville Historic District, also known as Historic Stevensville, is a national historic district in downtown Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It contains roughly 100 historic structures, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places...

. The building's name is a reference to Stevensville Savings Bank which once occupied the building. The classically detailed bank is now used as a law office.

Stevensville Savings Bank

Stevensville Savings Bank was the bank

Bank

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 that occupied the building until the 1960s. At that time, the bank moved near a strip mall

Strip mall

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 at the edge of Stevensville and changed its name to Tidewater Bank. Tidewater Bank later merged with larger banks; in recent years it has been owned by Nations Bank and Bank of America

Bank of America

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. The Tidewater Bank building continues to serve as a Bank of America branch known as the Tidewater Branch.

External links

• Stevensville Bank, Queen Anne's County, including photo dated 1978, at Maryland Historical Trust