Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA

Markle Banking and Trust Co., Hazleton, Pa.

In 1910, at the time of the Markle Bank Building's construction, Hazleton was the established center of the Middle Anthracite Coal Field. Built at a cost of nearly half a million dollars, the Markle Bank Building was Hazleton's first high-rise office building and reflected the importance of the Markle family in anthracite region banking and the importance of Hazleton banking and financial activities in the development of the coal region... The Markle Bank operated until 1958, and in the same year the storefront was altered.

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