Overview

Branch banking was a new concept to serve automobile-oriented American suburbs during the 1910s and particularly the 1920s. Banks greatly expanded at this time, building neighborhood locations near new housing tracts located well away from old city centers. Oakland architect Edward T. Foulkes (1874-1967) produced a design for at least one other branch bank, that for Alameda Savings Bank, c. 1917.

Building Notes

The Building and Engineering Newsreported in 08/1922 that a "one-story reinforced concrete bank building," to cost $20,000, was being planned for a site on East Fruitvale Avenue. The contractor selected was F.W. Maurice of Oakland. (See "Building News Section: Banks," Building and Engineering News, 08/05/1922, p. 7.)

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