This old bank building sits in the Delray neighborhood of Detroit.
A bank building was erected here in 1900 as the DelRay Savings Bank but was demolished by 1918. The current structure was completed in 1919 as the People’s State Bank. In the 1920s, additions were implemented.
In 1933 the People’s State Bank split, and the National Bank of Detroit used it as a branch. It stayed so until the 1980s. Throughout that time the bank was part of a conglomerate of businesses, which, one by one, they slowly disappeared, leaving the abandoned bank standing alone…