Retrieved from “www.archive.org of Cedar Street, had been under consideration, but it was found that sufficient and 136 CLEARING-HOUSES suitable room could not be had in that building, and rec- ommended that the association purchase a building and fit it up to meet the wants of the clearing-house and the banks.” At a subsequent meeting the committee was requested by resolution to renew their efforts to procure suitable rooms. Meanwhile the association had been accumulating a building fund, which by October, 1874, amounted to over ninety thousand dollars. Some time expired before an opportunity offered for the purchase of available property. Finally, the Na- tional Bank of the Commonwealth Building, on the cor- ner of Nassau and Pine Streets, was advertised
