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Show /f,' O Architect/Builder: Thorn:;; s J . Tho mp son --cast iron front Richard M. Upjohn \ "T , 0 £ Street Address: 4 161 South Main ,,. „„„,. „,.,„.„„.,. ,*-, ----- „..-.., SitlNo: , --------------- ,,-, --------- .,„,.„,.,, Q o _,^ "N \ !U 5 'r- o~ ..,,,,,,,«,. ../^ Building Materials: . . . V br-1 rk r-rH stone Building Type/Style: Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features: {Include additions, alterations, ancillary ipructures, and landscaping if applicable) originally built, tine First National Bank was a four-story brick and stone building with a Mansard roof and cast iron front. The Jfth story was or-iflnally enclosed within the Mansard roof and featured a vertical window . bay ^extension with an octagonal metal cupola. The bottom floor, which has been altered with the addition of new materials, consisted of a. central " panel of three large, windows, flanked on either side by .door bays. The., detailing, i.e. iron mullions, iron grillwork, transuras, pilasters, ..etc*, were of the same patterns and style as still extant on the second, and third stories. No attempt was cna.de to rebuild the-upper floor after the fire in 1375. The iron pinnacles) were elft intact and an iron pediment was- placed on.the cornice where the fourth floor window bays had been. ....... The present facade of ;he old. bank continues . to . display its. elaborate; -c a.st iro-ti ;s tor e front. " '-Thi 'front "fa.cade is- basically .div idled, -into,-, three,.-. ._--: 'v e'r t i C al 'p an e 1 s $ ea.ch separated by' pilasters. The- secon'd';antT third- stories, are identical in their fenestration and detailing. ..The -central panels . consist of three tall, double-hung sash windows .separated by deep, pilaster^ilse^mullions ''decorated' w) .th Ionic capitals. ' The-side panels ha.ve'single windows with similar mull: .ons. PIain~horizontal bands at the floor-levels are accented with intrica' ,e classical ribbons of egg .and dart, d-en^ila and undulating waves. When f: .rst built intricate iron-arched grills were locat Statement of Historical Significance] Construction The First National Bank Building is significant architecturally by virtue of having the oldest known castiron storefront in\ the Intermountain "west* pjohn (1802-1878) .of New York, was one of America 1 s Its designer, Richard - - - M. - Century most distinguished.19th architects, a pioneer and leader in the Early Gothic Revival, Romanesque Revival and Stick styles.of. American architecture. The old bank building'is oneof only two relatively'intact commercial" building! erected in Salt Lake City before Brigharn Young 1 s death -in '1877. Home of; che first-chartered bank in Utah, the upper floor of the bank was also one of the earliest meeting'-places for the Masonic lodges in Salt Lake* City. w ""* °~ ^ jm •*• _ _ _ _. _«-. i. The popular building also housed-the Wells, Fargo Company, : Atlantic- and' Pacific Telegraph Company, Masonic Library the official territorial Iibrar5r om the mid-l880s, theofficesof Simon Bamb'erger, various' lav/ offices and, later Governor of Utah. Utah's first national' ank, the Miner 1 s National Bank of Salt Lake,City, and was succeeded by the- First -National Bank. . v/ss chartered March 3? o.r Utah,, developed from tl: partnership of. Warren Hussey and-Charles Dahler. Liussey was a. gold, broker c id land agent in Colorado in the early 1860s. the Denver agen of Ben Holladay 1 s Overland. Stage Route. When . Fargo Company in 1866 Hussey and Dahler' sold out to Well in banking enterprises in Central City and Denver, Colorado; rginia City, Nevada; Hel ena, Montana; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Hussey n.aged the Salt Lake Cit^ office and quickly developed his institution to Utah 1 B most important financial ho'uses, with branches in Corinne and iiiagina'cive en :rgetic, Hussey expanded the bank in anticipation .n'J 1869. He bought out the Miner 1 s National Bank 1869, i ;ceived. a charter for the First National Bank of 'hp> ^ed the official U.S. Depository and became Tdng dividends totaling 100 percent of the capital >ident of the bank and its sole owner, Hussey nc ias J. Johnson to design a four-story bnc£, stone, |
