Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - banks (buildings)

Designers: Roller-West Company, Architects (firm); Albert F. Roller (architect); J. P. West (architect)

Dates: constructed 1926-1927

1 story

81 West Santa Clara Street
Downtown, San Jose, CA 95113

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The San Jose Building and Loan Association Main Office was located on Santa Clara Street between 1st Street and Market Street.

Building History

A brief note in the Architect and Engineer of California in 08/1926 read: “Plans have been completed by A.F. Roller & J.P. West, Crocker-First National Bank building, San Francisco, for a one-story monumental steel frame concrete and stone building for the San Jose Building & Loan Association. Construction will start this fall. The estimated cost is $85,000.” (See “San Jose Financial Building,” Architect and Engineer of California, 08/1926, p. 118.)

In 1922, the San Jose Building and Loan Association had consulted with the San Jose architects Binder and Curtis to prepare plans for a headquarters building. This design was not built, and the building and loan association went with Roller and West four years later.

PCAD id: 24792