The Home Savings Bank Building is an office building located in downtown Albany, New York,

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at 11 North Pearl Street (

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). At 19 stories and tall, it is the eleventh-tallest building in the city.

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When it was completed in 1927, the Home Savings Bank Building was the tallest structure in Albany. However, the Alfred E. Smith Building surpassed it the following year. That building has since been surpassed by the Erastus Corning Tower, which since its construction in 1973 has held the title of Albany's tallest building. Nevertheless, the Home Savings Bank Building has remained the tallest private building in Albany since its construction. The building features unusual stylized

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

images of Native Americans and colonial settlers near its roof and ground-floor street entrance. The artwork of unique decorative metal and

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is by

Rene Paul Chambellan Rene Paul Chambellan (September 15, 1893 – November 29, 1955) was an American sculptor who specialized in architectural sculpture. He was also one of the foremost practitioners of what was then called the "French Modern Style" and has subseque ...

. Also of architectural note is the original street-level banking floor with its various historic seals, rich marble walls and incredibly high ceilings. In recent years, the building has been extensively renovated as a combination downtown central business district office building and high tech

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

facility. As of 2010, the bank lobby is being leased to a formal event catering company, who uses the facility for banquets and wedding receptions. In 1980, when the

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was listed on the

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, the building was included as a

contributing property In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...

. As of 2010, the Home Savings bank building was owned by New York City-based Heights Real Estate Company.

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File:Home Savings Bank Building lower part.jpg, Detail of the entrance File:Home Savings Bank Building (Albany) with flags.jpg, The building flies the flags of the United States, New York State, and the City of Albany. File:HomeSavingsBankBuilding.jpg, View from the North

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* * {{Official website, http://11northpearl.com/
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