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Dallas designates Federal Reserve Bank a historic landmark
On this day in 1979, the city of Dallas declared the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas a historic landmark. Among the civic leaders who helped secure a Federal Reserve branch for Dallas in 1914 were G. B. Dealey, Walter F. McCaleb, Nathan Adams, and Hatton W. Sumners. The Dallas Fed, designed by the Chicago firm of Graham, Anderson, Probost, and White in the Neoclassical style of the Beaux Arts School, opened in 1921. It serves the Eleventh Federal Reserve District, which covers approximately 350,000 square miles and includes Texas, northern Louisiana, and southern New Mexico. Like the other reserve banks, the Dallas Fed is primarily a "banker's bank." It serves as a bank for financial institutions in basically the same way commercial banks and thrift institutions serve the public. Financial institutions send their excess currency and coin to the Fed, where the money is verified, sorted, and stored until it is needed to fill new orders.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS
- DALLAS, TX
- DEALEY, GEORGE BANNERMAN
- MCCALEB, WALTER FLAVIUS
- ADAMS, NATHAN
- SUMNERS, HATTON WILLIAM
- BANKS AND BANKING
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