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address:108-112 2nd St historic name:First National Bank of Bandon
Bandon, Coos County current/other names:Bank of Bandon, Masonic Temple Lodge #130 A.F. & A.M.
assoc addresses:
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location descr: twnshp/rng/sect/qtr sect:28S 14W 30
resource type:Building height (stories):2.0 total elig resources:1 total inelig resources:0
elig evaluation: eligible/significant NR Status: Individually Listed
prim constr date:1915 second date:1955 date indiv listed:06/24/2015
primary orig use: Financial Institute orig use comments:Communications Facility, Meeting Hall, Specialty Store
second orig use: Professional
primary style: Late 19th/20th Amer. Mvmts: Other prim style comments:
secondary style: Neo-Classical sec style comments:
primary siding: Stucco siding comments:
secondary siding:
plan type: Temple Form architect:Bror Benjamin Ostlind
builder:
comments/notes:
HRR - 9/29/2011 - Unclear if individually eligible for listing (IJ)
Not associated with any surveys or groupings.
NR date listed: 06/24/2015
ILS survey date:
RLS survey date: 09/29/2011
106 Project(s): None
Special Assess Project(s): None
Federal Tax Project(s): None
(Includes expanded description of the building/property, setting, significant landscape features, outbuildings and alterations)
The First National Bank of Bandon is a prominent two-story, poured-concrete building designed in the Neoclassical style in central Old Town Bandon. The rectangular building faces north toward the Coquille River. The building’s imposing mass measures 72’ long on the east and west elevations and 42’ 6” on the north and south elevations. The building is topped with a shallow, front-gabled roof, which is barely visible behind an ornamental poured-concrete balustrade running along the top of the front facade. The decorative front elevation is divided vertically into three bays by four full-height, squared engaged columns with Ionic capitals. The first and third bays each hold a set of paired, one-over-one double-hung windows at the second floor and a large transomed display window at the street level, separated from each other by a concrete spandrel panel. The center bay also features the paired windows at the second floor with a spandrel panel below them, but at the street level holds a deeply recessed entry with a central door and two flanking doors leading to separate storefronts. The front facade is capped by a tall concrete entablature trimmed with a classical balustrade. The remaining three sides of the building are unadorned. An exterior stair to the second floor on the west elevation leads to the Masonic Lodge #130 meeting spaces. The interior of the building includes approximately 7,600 square feet, and the two first floor stores feature approximately 14’ ceilings and hardwood floors. The basement includes an altered stairway and chamber under the sidewalk, and is divided by poured-concrete demising walls. The building exhibits very good integrity, strongly reflecting its original design, setting, location, feeling, materials, and workmanship as conceived by the architect, Bror Benjamin Ostlind. The period of significance for the building is 1914, the date the building was completed.
(Chronological, descriptive history of the property from its construction through at least the historic period - preferably to the present)
The First National Bank of Bandon, also known as Bank of Bandon and Masonic Temple, Lodge #130, was built in 1914 as a temple-front commercial building in the Neoclassical style in the city of Bandon, Coos County, Oregon. The building is locally significant under National Register Criterion C, Architecture, as the embodiment of the distinctive characteristics of its type, period, and method of its construction. Bror Benjamin Ostlind, a well-known and prominent architect in what was then known as Marshfield (today’s Coos Bay), Oregon, combined the use of a relatively new and structurally robust material, concrete with “cold twisted rod” reinforcement, and the staid Neoclassical style to create a functional commercial bank building that conveyed the stability of the institution to the community, while providing a secure and fire-resistant location for the bank. The bank’s character-defining features include the symmetrical design of the north elevation with its monumental Ionic engaged columns, three-bay facade with symmetrical storefront and paired double-hung windows, poured-concrete balustrade, and the building’s reinforced poured-concrete construction. The building’s prominent architectural features and massing make the bank a visual landmark in the Bandon community. While the First National Bank of Bandon has seen many owners and tenants, the period of significance is 1914, the year the building was constructed, reflecting the complete realization of Ostlind’s design for the project and the building’s significance under Criterion C.
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Bibliography:
BOOKS Bandon Historical Society Museum. FIRE!, 1979. Beckham, Curt. The Night Bandon Burned. Myrtle Point, OR: Myrtle Point Printing, 1986. Beckham, Dow, Bandon-by-the-Sea: Hope and Perseverance in a Southwestern Oregon Town. Coos Bay, OR: Arago Books, 1997. Belfoure, Charles. Monuments to Money: The Architecture of American Banks. Jefferson. NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005. Freeman, Harry D., “Plan for a New Bandon,” Submitted by the Oregon State Planning Board, November 1937. L. Del Turco & Bros. Inc. Modern Mosaic & Terrazzo Floors. Harrison, N.J.: L. Del Turco & Bros. Inc., 1924. Longstreth, Richard. The Buildings of Main Street A Guide to American Commercial Architecture. Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York, Oxford: Alta Mira Press, 2000. “Memorandum on assessed value and tax delinquency of real property situated within the city limits of Bandon,” Publisher: Eugene, Or: Bureau of Municipal Research & Service, University of Oregon, 1936. Retrieved from the Oregon State Library call No. 333.09795 fOr382m. pg. 42. McAlester, Virginia Savage. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Miller, Robert and Reg Pullen. Images of America: Bandon. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013. Mullen, Jay Carlton and Joy B. Dunn. Eagles of the West: Western Bank 1904-1994. Medford, OR: Southern Oregon Historical Society, 1994. Ostlind, Millie. Gramillie’s Reflections. Coos Bay, OR: Millie Ostlind, 1966. Ritz, Richard Ellison. Architects of Oregon: A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Deceased – 19th and 20th Centuries. Portland, Oregon: Lair Hill Publishing, 2002. Roth, Leland M. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publisher, Inc., 1980. Schlem, C.E. “History of the Bandon Masonic Lodge #130.” 1985. Shaw Company, A.W. Buildings, Equipment and Supplies: Location and General Construction. The Shaw Bank Series. 1919. Printed in the U.S. A. MAGAZINE / NEWSPAPERS Amburgh, Fred Van, “Unusual Stories of Unusual Men: Benjamin B. Ostlind,” The Rotarian: The Magazine of Service, Volume XXIX, No. 4, October 1926, 41-43. Bandon Recorder, Bandon, Oregon The Coos Bay Times, Marshfield, Oregon The Morning Oregonian, Portland, Oregon MAGAZINE / NEWSPAPERS The Salem Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon The Sunday Oregonian, Portland, Oregon Oregonian, Portland, Oregon DEEDS Deed of Sale between Y.M. Lowe, Viola Rosa, and R.H. Rosa and the First National Bank of Bandon. 30 August 1913, Coos County, Oregon. Deed no. 6068. County Recorder's Office, Coquille, Oregon. Deed of Sale between the First National Bank of Bandon and Y.M. Lowe, Viola Rosa, and R.H. Rosa. 11 April 1914, Coos County, Oregon. Deed no. 7326. County Recorder's Office, Coquille, Oregon. Deed of Sale between Bank of Bandon and Bandon Lodge No. 130 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. 29 June 1955, Coos County, Oregon. Deed no. 92512. County Recorder's Office, Coquille, Oregon. Party Wall Agreement between Y.M. Lowe, Viola Rosa, and R.H. Rosa and the First National Bank of Bandon. 30 August 1913, Coos County, Oregon. Deed no. 6069. County Recorder's Office, Coquille, Oregon. Quit Claim between the First National Bank of Bandon and F.S. Perry, W.F. Perry and O.L. Zentor. 21 March 1927, Coos County, Oregon. Deed no. 35748. County Recorder's Office, Coquille, Oregon. Quit Claim sold from F.S. Perry and Betty E. Perry to Bank of Bandon. 10 December 1936, Coos County, Oregon. Deed no. 56633. County Recorder's Office, Coquille, Oregon. OTHER “Annual Report of the Comptroller of Currency: December 12, 1927,” United States Government Printing Office 1928, Treasury Department Document No. 2991. Retrieved on September 30, 2014 from http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/publications/comp/1920s/compcurr_1927.pdf. Koler/Morrison Consultants. “First National Bank of Coquille.” City of Coquille Historic Inventory Form. Listed September 1988. Retrieved from the Oregon Historic Sites Database. Lundberg, Theresa M. “Coos Bay National Bank Building.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Listed September 29, 1980. Retrieved from the Oregon Historic Sites Database. Perron, Bradford W.S. Historic Carousels. Inc. “First National Bank of Hood River.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Listed December 14, 2005. Retrieved from the Oregon Historic Sites Database. Prather, Ray L. & Alice L. “Captain Bror W. Olsson House.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Listed November 2, 1986. Retrieved from the Oregon Historic Sites Database. Provost, Elizabeth. “George W. and Hetty A. Bower House.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Listed on September 23, 2011. Retrieved from the Oregon Historic Sites Database. Ransome. Ernest L. US Patent 305226 A. United States Patent Office. September 16, 1884. Retrieved on March 16 from https://www.google.co.in/patents/US305226?dq=Patent+305226&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0TwHVaOFF5LkoATKm4II&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA. Weiss, Harry. “Early Concrete Construction in Oregon: 1880-1915.” Master of Science in Historic Preservation Thesis, University of Oregon, June 1983. World Scientific. High-Performance Construction Materials: Science and Applications. Technology & Engineering. 2008. Retrieved on March 16, 2015 from https://books.google.com/books?id=pWkxjs1vAqMC&pg=PA9&dq=The+Ingalls+building&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I0gHVf7FC9e2oQS0wYCoDw&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=The%20Ingalls%20building&f=false.