Baker Boyer Bank
Baker Boyer Bank is the oldest bank in the US state of Washington . The bank was the first money house to open a branch in Walla Walla County .
Founders of the bank were in 1869 Dorsey Syng Baker (1823-1888) and John F. Boyer (1824-1897).
Mark Kajita has been CEO of the bank since January 2014.
Bank building in Walla Walla
The bank building in Walla Walla was built from 1909 to 1911 by the twin brothers Louis Beezer (1869–1929) and Michael J. Beezer (1869–1933), who jointly ran the Beezer Brothers architectural office in Seattle from 1907 to 1923 . It is a seven-story office building with a colonnade with Ionic columns on the front that extends over the two lower floors . This building was the first high-rise in Walla Walla.
Web links
- Baker Boyer
- Entry for the bank building in the Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)
Individual evidence
- ^ Paula Becker: Baker Boyer Bank opens in Walla Walla on November 10, 1869. The free online encyclopedia of Washington state history, October 17, 2007.
- ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=28730360&privcapId=3103225
- ^ Heather M. MacIntosh: Beezer Brothers Architecture Firm (1907-1923). The free online encyclopedia of Washington state history, October 28, 1998.
- ^ Baker-Boyer Bank Building. In: Jeffrey Karl Ochsner: Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition , 2017, 2nd new edition, p. 176. ISBN 978-0-295-80689-1 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)