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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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im))ressive in ajipearance, yet i)ossess faults of arrangement which causeI)ermanent inconvenience to its occupants. .V banking room, too, is ))ri-marily a place in which to transact business, and secondarily an (ibjectfor admiration, so it is evident that the inside layout and arrangementmust be considered first. The advantage of a high-jjriced. ))rominenl corner lot u))on wiiich tobuild a bank is generally a));)reciated. The cost, howexer, fre(;Uentl\-places a fixed charge on it for ground rent which i)ractically ))recludesan individual bank building, owing to the excessive rental that would benecessary. An office building, income-producing, relieves the bank of the •In a sulKequenI nunil>er .\rchitect Charles Peter Weeks of San Francisco will write about the one-story monumental hank building. Some of the more i)retentious structures of this character creeled onthe Pacific Coast in recent years will be shown. rsl Irust Building,L. B. Duttoii. .-Ire. 40 The J.vchitccI and Engin
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FIRST XATIOX.-IL BAXK BCILDIXC. S.iX FRAXCISCOUILLIS POLK &■ COMPAXy. ARCHITECTS The Architect ami F.iii^inccr 41

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