page_title: Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building
hierarchical_section_title: Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of building after the upper two floors were added
context_page_description: The Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building is an office building located at 612 South Gay Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Built in 1907 for the Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company, the building now houses offices for several law firms and financial agencies. The building's facade was constructed with locally quarried marble, and is designed in the Second Renaissance Revival style. In 1983, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance.
  The Mechanics' National Bank was chartered in 1882, and moved into a building at what is now 612 South Gay that same year. Within a few months of opening, the bank's president, Thomas O'Connor, was killed in a notorious shootout. In 1907, after the bank reorganized as the Mechanics' Bank and Trust, it built the first three floors of the current Mechanics' Bank building. The Union National Bank absorbed Mechanics' Bank in 1922, and added the top two stories the following year. The building later housed a branch of the Hamilton National Bank.
context_section_description: The Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building is an office building located at 612  South Gay Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.  Built in 1907 for the Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company, the building now houses offices for several law firms and financial agencies.  The building's facade was constructed with locally quarried marble, and is designed in the Second Renaissance Revival style.  In 1983, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance.
  The Mechanics' National Bank was chartered in 1882, and moved into a building at what is now 612 South Gay that same year.  Within a few months of opening, the bank's president, Thomas O'Connor, was killed in a notorious shootout.  In 1907, after the bank reorganized as the Mechanics' Bank and Trust, it built the first three floors of the current Mechanics' Bank building.  The Union National Bank absorbed Mechanics' Bank in 1922, and added the top two stories the following year.  The building later housed a branch of the Hamilton National Bank (headquartered in the nearby Holston building).  In the early 1980s, the building was home to the City and County Bank, part of the Butcher banking empire, which collapsed in 1983 due to bank fraud.
caption: Building in the 1920s
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