2 The Philadelphia Fed is three blocks north, and another three west, from the birthplace of American central banking. That birthplace is not the site of the First or Second Banks of the United States, whose neoclassical headquarters are still standing and open to the public.
3 Instead, the first national bank sat just west of North 3rd Street and Chestnut: the Bank of North America. 4  1  John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (10th ed., 1919), https://www.bartleby.com/100/245.21.html. U.S. Senate, “The Nine Capitals of the United States” (citing Robert Fortenbaugh, The Nine Capitals of the United States (1948), at 9), https://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Nine_Capitals_of_the_United_States.htm.