Baker - Boyer Bank Building, Downtown, Walla Walla, WA (1911)

AKA: Baker-Boyer Bank Building, Walla Walla, WA

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

Designers: Beezer Brothers, Architects (firm); Louis Beezer (architect); Michael J. Beezer (architect)

Dates: constructed 1911

7 stories

click to open gallery Postcard view of the Baker-Boyer Building, Walla Walla, c. 1912. From the author's collection, postcard by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, CA
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7 West Main Street
Downtown, Walla Walla 99362
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Overview

At seven stories tall, the Baker-Boyer Block was Walla Walla's first skyscraper, completed in 1911.

Building Notes

This seven-story office building, featured colonnades of engaged Ionic columns on the first and second stories of its front facade. A heavy entablature separated the bank portion of the building with the offices rented on the upper, third-seventh floors.

PCAD id: 8769

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