Federal Land Bank Building
Originally designed for the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore in 1926, this is one of the last buildings designed by Nechodoma before his untimely death in a 1928. The building housed the Puerto Rico Production Credit Association which evolved from the Federal Land Bank in 1934. In 1937 the building was acquired by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce who occupied it until 2020. It is located in Old San Juan where streets are very narrow and there is not much room to appreciate its architecture from a distance. It is on the same street two blocks west of the Bank of Nova Scotia Building also designed by Nechodoma.
Though the Federal Land Bank Building is bigger, to some extent it has a resemblance with the Veteran's Memorial Library in St. Cloud, FL which is a Prairie Style designed by Isabel Roberts in 1922. Removing the columns in the Nechodoma design, the Prairie Style is clearly identifiable in both structures.
This design has also been described as being in the Grecian Style, but it is reminiscent of Prairie Style bank buildings in the Midwest. Nechodoma added the Grecian Style columns but nonetheless the overall characteristics are those of the Prairie Style.