The Banks of Covington, Kentucky

covington banks


Central Savings Bank and Trust northeast corner of 20th and Madison			Officers & Directors


Covington Branch Farmers Bank of Kentucky, 1890	The Northern Bank of Kentucky, 1883	Citizens National Bank, 1912 & 1922 southeast corner of Madison & Pike.
Here's the Northern Bank of Kentucky's application to be on the National Register of Historic places, complete with photo's, history, and maps.


First National Bank, 1912	First National Bank, 1922
Failed attempt at breaking into Covington's First National in 1875.


Farmers & Traders Bank, 1901, Sixth & Madison	Farmers & Traders Bank Building, c. 1910	Farmers & Traders Bank, 1903
Farmers & Traders merged with First National in 1910. The merged Banks took this building for their location.
An item about Farmers & Traders from 1909 is here.
A little more history on the Farmers & Traders Bank by Dr. Paul Tenkotte is at this site.


German National Bank	Liberty National Bank	Liberty National Bank
The German National Bank, 1912, 609 Madison. The bank changed its name to the Liberty National Bank in January 1918 during a waive of anti-German hysteria that swept Covington and other parts of the country. To read about what mob ignorance is capable of, we urge you to read Lisa Gilliam's great piece from the Kentucky Heritage Magazine, which will give you all the ugly details. It's a big pdf, but well worth your time. You can find it here. Thanks to Lisa Gilliam and the Kentucky Heritage magazine for permission to post it!

Security Savings Bank, below, was earlier the Western German Savings Bank, but also changed their name in the anti-German hysteria of 1918


Star Federal Savings and Loan Assoc. 9th and Pike, s.w. corner	Security Savings Bank, Ninth & Pike, northeast corner	Covington Savings Bank, N. e. Corner, 6th & Madison	Suburban Federal Savings and Loan, 1976


1904	1912	1922
The Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Co., on the s.w. corner of 6th & Madison in Covington
The Peoples Savings Bank and Trust would later merge with the German National Bank (see note above), which had renamed itself the Liberty National Bank. They became the Peoples-Liberty Bank and Trust, which was bought by the First National Bank of Cincinnati, which became Star Bank, to be bought by US Bank of Minneapolis. Got that? Care?

There's a collection of old Covington Bank notes here.


First Federal Savings and Loan Association, 501-503 Main Street, Covington


Burnett Building and Loan 1607 Eastern Avenue Open Mon-Thu. 11-5 & Fri. 11-7:30 Phone: 581-8330 They turned 90 years old in 1979	General Building Savings and Loan Association 629 Madison Avenue, Covington


C. Merwin Grayson and Ralph V. Haile, Jr., both of the Peoples-Liberty Bank and Trust Co., 1952	Hal M. Ricketts, Insurance First National Bank Building, Covington, Kentucky “Insures Anything Insurable”

Independence Branch of the Union Savings & Loan