The Westport Bank and Trust Company is a historic commercial building at 87 Post Road East in Westport,

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. It is a two-story Classical Revival brick building, designed by local architect Charles E. Cutler and built in 1924. The bank was founded in 1852 by Horace Staples, a prominent local businessman, and was a longtime fixture in the local economy. The building is notable for its architecture, and for a series of murals in its lobby, commissioned in the 1960s and executed by Robert L. Lambdin, an artist best known for his Depression-era work funded by the

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. The building was listed on the

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on November 6, 2006.

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National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut Neoclassical architecture in Connecticut Commercial buildings completed in 1924 Buildings and structures in Westport, Connecticut {{Connecticut-NRHP-stub

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