Save the historic Homer City bank

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In 2009, the former Homer City National Bank building at the corner of Main Street and Miller Avenue in Homer City, quietly celebrated its 100th anniversary.

At the time of its completion, there were no paved streets, no electric lights, the town's first high school building was recently completed, heck there wasn't even a streetcar, a filling station, or a single automobile within borough limits.

Now, 101 years later the building faces the wrecking ball, per the desire of its current owner, S&T Bancorp.

We are about to lose a community treasure.

From what I've inferred from HC Councilwomen Bernice Harris' comment we are about to witness the destruction of a building thats stood as a silent sentinel to the evolution of Homer City a one-of-a-kind structure to a non-descript cookie-cutter building to which none of us have even the slightest connection.

We've bought war bonds there; we've opened our first savings accounts there; we've used it as a landmark to give directions. We like our bank, please let it live.

Despite S&T Bank's wish to be portrayed as a community bank, it is about to deprive a proud community of its most recognizable and oldest commercial building. It is iconic on the streetscape of Homer City - a landmark among residents and former residents, alike.

Our message to S&T Bank is that you do not have to destroy this landmark that many of us have grown to love; you are opting to.

Please, let the building stand and build elsewhere or "buck up" and respect our town with the renovation that this historic building deserves.

350 Signatures

  • Benjamin I. Mitchell
  • steph marcon
  • Brian W. Fulmer
  • Erin Mitchell
  • Wesley Marshall
  • Elizabeth A. Gazza
  • Marie Plowcha
  • Frederick M. Smith
    • Comments
    • Use some of that BAIL OUT money you took, and fix it up.
  • Martha Wargo Barr
    • Comments
    • its part of the town , leave it be
  • Elaine Capitosti Thurston
    • Comments
    • The petition letter says it all. In addition, we have already lost local landmarks due to natural catastrophes. Those we had no control over. This is something being done as a result of human control.
  • John Choma
  • Evan Gazza
  • Brenda Seigh
    • Comments
    • You have a beautiful building built by local craftsmen. It is a shame to destroy such a tribute to their labor..
  • Barbara Blue
  • Diann Overman
  • Megan Citeroni
  • mario sacco
  • Harry Mack
  • Christine Mitchell
  • Richard L & Barbara L Coy
    • Comments
    • there is no need to destroy this landmark
  • Brenda Stiteler
    • Comments
    • We should always try to save parts of our history
  • Dale Shank
  • James Pettenati
    • Comments
    • "The Wide Awake Bank" ?
  • Debi Sink
    • Comments
    • Why not leave the building and move the bank somewhere else...Leffdal Funeral Home is for sale. Please preserve our town history!
  • Denise Jennings
    • Comments
    • Rennovate over razing. Preserve, protect, promote our heritage. Do not demolish this building
  • Homer Center Historical Society
    • Comments
    • Preserve our heritage. Do not demolish, but reuse. Once it is gone, it's too late. Our town needs its history
  • Melinda J Ault
    • Comments
    • I opened my first saving account at this bank and got my very first mortgage at the Homer City Bank in 1971. This historical building needs to stand where it was built!
  • Heidi and David Maxwell
  • Kelly Berfield
  • Kevin F. Hinson
  • Matthew Hilliard
  • Aimee Vesitis
  • Gene Raymond
  • Carolyn Davis
  • Paula Andrei
  • Judith Palaski
    • Comments
    • Please save our bank. We want our landmarks preserved.
  • Rebecca Hamilton Shaffer
    • Comments
    • Homer City has made great strides in trying to make known the historic meaning of the Hootle bug trail, why would it think so little of a building that is 101 years old. Homer City is not that large that it can think so little of a historic building of this magnitude. Please reconsider this decision, for it is not only a bad one , but one that can never be reversed once it is done.
  • JAMES M ULICNY
    • Comments
    • SAVE OUR BUILDING
  • PATRICA L ULICNY
    • Comments
    • PLEASE SAVE THE BUILDING
  • Eric Barker
    • Comments
    • This bank is historical and is one of a kind. Razing it would also raze some of the culture of uniqueness of downtown Homer City.
  • Matthew J. Watterson
    • Comments
    • Grandson of F.D. "Red" Watterson, former VP/Loan officer of HCSB and Helen M. Watterson, former employee of S&T. They would both be ashamed and distraught to see this building destroyed; as would I.
  • Laurie Wier
  • MARGARET L. MITCHELL
  • Amy Watterson Lingenfelter
    • Comments
    • My dad, "Red" Watterson, believed in the young adults in the surrounding areas and gave many of them their first loans to buy a car. To this day I have people come up to me and say, "Your dad was the only one who would give me a loan. He believed in me and I paid back every cent." That building has a lot of memories for our family.
  • Carol I. Myers
    • Comments
    • Just look at the stonework on this building and imagine the difficult process of building it. Homer City has already lost too much of it's old town charm. I can't imagine the town without it. Carol Myers, Durham, NC
  • Fred Judeich
  • MIke Bondra
  • Mark F. Carson
    • Comments
    • Please keep the old HCSB building. It's an Indiana County treasure as well as a Homer City landmark.
  • Garry W. Barnett
  • C D Roser
    • Comments
    • This is the last building in town with any of its original character .Once its gone, it can't be brought back.