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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Genesee County Savings Bank
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| image =Genesse County Savings Bank c 1924.png
| caption = Genesse County Savings Bank {{circa|1924}}
| location= 352 S. Saginaw St., [[Flint, Michigan]]
| coordinates = {{coord|43|1|1|N|83|41|32|W|region:US_type:landmark|name=Genesee County Savings Bank|display=inline,title}}
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| built = {{Start date|1919}}
| architect = Hodgson Brothers
| architecture =
| added = November 27, 2017
| area =
| refnum = 100001836<ref name="nps">{{citation | title = National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List | date = December 1, 2017 | publisher = National Park Service | url = https://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20171201.htm | accessdate = October 10, 2018}}</ref>
}}
The '''Genesee County Savings Bank''' is an office building located at 352 South Saginaw Street in [[Flint, Michigan]]. It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2017.<ref name="nps"/>
The Genesee County Savings Bank was founded in 1872. In 1915, the bank opened a new headquarters at the corner of Kearsley and Saginaw Streets.<ref name = "hist">{{citation | title = HISTORY OF GENESEE COUNTY MICHIGAN | author = WOOD | date = 1916| pages = 534–537 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V-CQVdbOimgC&pg=PA534}}</ref>  In 1916, the bank consolidated some business aspects with the First National Bank of Flint. Due to Flint's booming economy, both banks were outgrowing their headquarters, and in 1919, Genesee County Savings Bank constructed this new building only a block from their old headquarters. The building was designed by Hodgson Brothers of [[New York City]].<ref name = "aia">{{cite web | url = http://aiami.com/Resources/Documents/Be%20A%20Tourist%20Tour%20AIA%20Flint%20FINAL%20VERSION.pdf | accessdate = September 5, 2019 | title = BUILDINGS, BRICKS and BRIDGES TOUR | author1 = Ron Campbell | author2 = Jackie Hoist | publisher = AIA/Flint}}</ref> Over the rest of the 1920s, the bank grew tremendously, and in 1957 merged with Merchants & Mechanics Bank to form Genesee Merchants Bank & Trust Co.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/k3-changes-state-member-banks-3938/july-6-1957-486753/fulltext | title=Full text of K.3 Changes in State Member Banks : July 6, 1957 &#124; FRASER &#124; St. Louis Fed }}</ref>  The bank moved its headquarters to [[Genesee Towers]] in 1968.
As of 2017, the building was long vacant, and Uptown Development Corporation planned on redeveloping the building into a 100-room hotel.<ref>{{cite news | title = 100-room Hilton hotel, restaurant proposed for downtown Flint | date =  September 20, 2017 | author = Oona Goodin-Smith | newspaper = MLive | url = https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/09/100-room_hilton_hotel_restaura.html}}</ref> Renovation began in 2019, and was completed in 2020.<ref name = "hilton"/> The building is now home to the Downtown Flint [[Hilton Garden Inn]], an Italian American restaurant, a coffee shop, and a rooftop bar.
==Description==
The Genesee County Savings Bank is an eleven story building<ref name = "hilton">{{cite news | title = Flint Hilton hotel project gets time to secure historic designation for downtown site | date = May 21, 2019 | author=  Ron Fonger | newspaper = MLive | url = https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2019/05/flint-hilton-hotel-project-gets-time-to-secure-historic-designation-for-downtown-site.html}}</ref> with a limestone exterior, located on a lot on the corner of Saginaw and Kearsley. Multiple cornices run around he building, emphasizing its length. The upper floors contain large windows to let natural light into the interior. The top two floors consisted of executive offices, with a colonnade running around the building. Above these is a deep cornice. The lower levels of the Saginaw Street façade appear to have been remodeled in an Art Modern style, inconsistent with the Kearsley Street façade.<ref name = "aia"/>
==References==
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Michigan}}
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Genesee County, Michigan]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1919]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Flint, Michigan]]