loan office

an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.

a public office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan.

a pawnbroker's shop.

Origin of loan office

First recorded in 1710–20

She brought me word they had no such sum to spare; I said they might mortgage their house in the loan-office.

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |Benjamin Franklin
I have had loan-office bills, drawn on the commissioners of the United States, presented to me.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson |Thomas Jefferson
The second term means monies put into the loan-office of the United States.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson |Thomas Jefferson
They hoped, by putting their money in the loan-office, though in a depreciated state, to receive hard money for it by and by.

Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) |Thomas Hart Benton

The incident, it appears, was considered closed with the defeat of the loan-office bill.

The Life of John Marshall (Volume 1 of 4) |Albert J. Beveridge