Central Trust Company Buildings are two historic commercial buildings located at Altoona,

Blair County, Pennsylvania Blair County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,822. Its county seat is Hollidaysburg. The county was created on February 26, 1846, from parts of Huntingdon and Bedford counties. Blai ...

. They are two five-story buildings connected by a stair and elevator tower. The buildings measure . The Central Trust Company Building was built in 1905 and is a white glazed brick building with

brownstone Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material. Type ...

trim in the Beaux Arts style. The entry features two

Ionic order The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite or ...

engaged granite columns. The adjoining Brett Building was built between 1922 and 1924. ''Note:'' This includes The buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and are located in the Downtown Altoona Historic District.

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* * {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania Romanesque Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Beaux-Arts architecture in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings completed in 1905 Commercial buildings completed in 1924 Buildings and structures in Altoona, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Blair County, Pennsylvania Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Pennsylvania 1905 establishments in Pennsylvania