{"id":1921,"date":"2022-07-21T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamshistory.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:39:02","slug":"historical-center-book-shop-takes-on-look-of-friendship-state-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Center Book Shop takes on Look of Friendship State Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1920\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1920\" class=\" wp-image-1920\" src=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/HtgCtr_0808-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Friendship State Bank lives again<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Friendship State Bank was the first bank in Adams County.\u00a0 The bank was housed in the Gunning-Purvis Office Building in Friendship that is now the Adams County Historical Society&#8217;s Adams County Heritage Center.\u00a0 The bank opened in 1910, soon after the building opened. The bank closed in 1936 during the depression as did many, but the old bank vault and the safe inside it remained.\u00a0 The ornate cage that the tellers stood behind and dealt with depositors behind the bars was taken out when the bank closed. It was ruined some years later in storage.<\/p>\n<p>Now an antique bank cage was found and installed.\u00a0 The new cage makes the book shop in the Center look like it could be a set for a 1930&#8217;s movie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2096\" src=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ACHS_0825-Copied.jpg 1477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Friendship State Bank was the first bank in Adams County.\u00a0 The bank was housed in the Gunning-Purvis Office Building in Friendship that is now the Adams County Historical &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/?p=1921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.adamshistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}