OpenStreetMap (new tab)

Google Map (new tab)

Following the Depression of 1893, the Fresno Loan and Savings Bank failed in 1895.

This wood-frame Victorian building was a composite of various stylistic trends swirling at the time; its dominant features were the undulating collection of bays rippling the facades, a spiky group of false gables and a corner turret, and its profusion of Italianate decorative features. It possessed long, thin Italianate windows, some topped by pediments, and a roof line traced by a jagged series of bracketed cornices. The eaves was ornamented with wrought-iron cresting. The building's tall scale and rich ornamentation demonstrated the bank's substance and modernity to contemporary pedestrians. It was likely a leading office building in Fresno, CA, during the 1880s-1900s.

The Fresno Loan and Savings Bank purchased the building in the late 1880s, adding two floors (giving 4) and an elevator, an unusual contraption for a Western city at the time. This work was completed in 1889.

Demolished; the bank building was torn down around 1924. Another bank building, the Pacific Southwest Bank Building, took its place.

PCAD id: 15080