Stop 8: Green-Wardner House

Just before the cemetery
The Green-Wardner House on the hill
Was the Ascutney bank building
They had their own bill.

After ten years without a bank in Windsor, Ascutney Bank opened here, in Dr. George Green’s store, in 1848 with a capital base of $50,000. Like many banks in these years, it printed its own currency. Allen Wardner was the first president of the bank. In 1865, when the United States passed the National Banking Act, the bank’s name was changed to Ascutney National Bank, the name it kept until it closed its doors in 1881. Three years later, the Windsor National Bank opened and printed the only allowable national currency until it closed in 1891. The building is part of the larger property built by Dr. Isaac Green. His fourth son, George, and eventually his daughter, Ann Wardner, also lived in this house.