American Exchange Bank

The American Exchange Bank is an Italian Renaissance Revival-style business block built in 1871 in Madison, Wisconsin, and is one of the last such structures left on the Capitol Square.

[3] The first session of that legislature had met in 1836 in Belmont, but many of the delegates were unhappy with the spartan accommodations in the hastily-thrown-up first capital in November and December.

He designed an exterior of Madison sandstone in an Italian Renaissance Revival style tending toward the Romano-Tuscan mode, with a rusticated first story and a massive cornice.

Many of the interior features may date from that remodel, including the gold marble wainscoting and teller's booths and the coppered ceiling.

[1] Even so, the American Exchange bank is a survivor of the multi-story sandstone buildings that came to dominate the Capitol Square in the late 1800s.