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Burke & Herbert Bank Business Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … occupied a series of Old Town offices after its 1852 founding at the corner of Prince and Lee streets, moving as the business outgrew successive rented quarters ^[1] Source 1 The Zebra, 'Brief Glimpse: Burke & Herbert Bank,' 2015 Website . In 1903 the partnership commissioned the present neoclassical building at the corner of King and South Fairfax — a four-story limestone-faced structure with a temple-fronted entrance, deep banking hall, and second-floor partners’ offices that Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … occupied during his last years.

The building is still the bank’s headquarters in 2026, an unusual continuity even by Old Town standards: more than 120 uninterrupted years of banking on the same King Street corner under the same family-controlled brand. The interior banking hall and the original safe and teller cages are preserved ^[2] Source 2 LOC, Carol Highsmith, Burke & Herbert Bank Building, 2020 Photograph .