PCAD - Citizen's Bank Building, Ontario, CA

Exterior view of the Citizen's Bank Building, Ontario, CA, 1895. From "Citizens Bank at the corner of Euclid and Holt in Ontario, California," Huntington Library.org, Ernest Marquez Collection, Item #photoCL_55_01_1988, accessed 04/15/2026.

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North Euclid Street and West A Street
Downtown, Ontario, CA 91762

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West A Street was later known as Holt Boulevard. This location is approximate.

Overview

This two-story retail and office building stood on a prominent corner of Ontario, CA's early downtown. Designed by the Riverside architect Adam C. Willard in 1894, it was likely completed in 1895.

Building History

The Citizen's Bank of Ontario, CA, incorporated on 03/17/1890, founded by James Polk. Robertson and Martin V. McQuigg. (See Second Annual Report of the Superintendent of Banks of the State of California, 1911, {Sacramento, Friend William Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, 1912] p. 128.) It merged with the with the 1st National Bank in 1911. (See "Capt. Robertson Found Dead in Bed by Family; Funeral Plans Incomplete," Los Angeles Sunday Times, 02/08/1925, part V, p. 12)

The Los Angeles Public Library's California Index had an entry for Willard that read: "Architect A.C. Willard of Riverside is drawing plans for a new block to be built at Ontario by the Citizen's bank." (See "Citizen's Bank notice," Builder and Contractor, 07/11/1894, p. 1.) A note in the Los Angeles Herald of 1227/1894, stated: "Building are being moved from the Tyson corner on A street to make way for the new Citizen's bank block." (See "Ontario," Los Angeles Herald, 12/27/1894, p. 8.)

The Huntington Library owns as photograph of the two-story Citizen's Bank Building in Ontario, which it indicated was erected in 1895. At this time it supported three retail businesses on one facade of the first floor, the bank on the corner, and one other retail business on the perpincular facade. The bank building accommodated offices or apartments on the second, with entrance on the facade with three retail storefronts.

Architect Willard designed an eclectic facade with residual Richardsonian Romanesque arches on the first floor, a Mission Revival-influenced corner turret and some Neoclassical detailing on the second, seen most prominently in the Palladian windows and swags decorating a frieze just below the cornice line.

Demolition

The Citizen's Bank Building in Ontario was demolished.

PCAD id: 25973

Publications

"Citizen's Bank notice", Builder and Contractor, 1, 1894-07-11.

Citizen's Bank Building, Ontario, CA (1894-1895) demolished

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