PCAD - Farmers Exchange Bank, Carousel, San Bernardino, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - banks (buildings); built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - public buildings - city halls

North D Street
Carousel, San Bernardino, CA 92401

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The Farmers Exchange Bank was located on the west side of North D Street between West 4th and West 5th Streets.

Overview

The City of San Bernardino outgrew its old City Hall on the southwest corner of 3rd and D Streets by World War I. In 1919, it purchased for $40,000 the old Farmers Exchange Bank, erected in 1888, for use as its second administrative center. It would use this Romanesque bank building until 1938, when the third New Deal-era city hall was completed.

Building Notes

The Farmers Exchange Bank Building accommodated five legal firms in 1891, including those of Charles W. Allen, Charles N. Damron, Henry W. Nisbet, Charles J. Perkins, and Oscar P. Taylor. (See San Bernardino, California, City Directory, 1891, p. 140.)

PCAD id: 20403

Farmers Exchange Bank, Carousel, San Bernardino, CA (1888)