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Building History

In 1874, A.H. Wilcox was the President of the Commercial Bank of San Diego; he employed E.F. Spence, Cashier and Jose G. Estudillo, Assistant Cashier. (See Information Relative to the City of San Diego, California, [San Diego: San Diego Daily Union, 1874], p. 43.) The bank was a two-floor, rectangular building. On its short end, it had two bays each housing a retail space on the first floor. The Commerical Bank of San Diego occupied one of these two spaces. The bays were demarcated by three rusticated pilasters, On the long side, there looks to have been one storefront available to the rear.

The bank building was likely of wood-frame construction, with the framing for the commercial storefronts perhaps of iron. Windows of the first floor were topped by segmental and basket-handle arches, while those of the second had taller, stilted arches, trimmed by corresponding hood moldings, each with a central keystone. A cornice supported by heavy brackets graced the parapet line.

PCAD id: 22975