Italian American Bank

Italian American Bank
Former Italian American Bank at 460 Montgomery Street (2017)
Location	460 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Coordinates	37.793749°N 122.402834°W / 37.793749; -122.402834
Built	1907 (1907)
Architect	Howard & Galloway
San Francisco Designated Landmark
Designated	April 6, 1980[1]
Reference no.	110
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Italian American Bank is a historic building built in 1907, and located on 460 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, California.[2][3] The Italian American Bank building has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since April 6, 1980.

History

A brick building with 7-stories was in the same location, owned by the Italian American Bank, and was destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[3]

The 1907, a 2-story replacement building was designed by the architecture firm Howard & Galloway and built during a period of reconstruction in the neighborhood, using steel reinforced concrete, bricks, and granite.[4] The Italian American Bank has a basement level.[3]

The building was subject to facadism by architectural firm Roger Owen Boyer and Associates, and it was combined with the neighboring Borel & Co. building (1908), in order to create 456 Montgomery Plaza.[2][5]

See also

• Fugazi Bank Building
• List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks

References

1. "City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks" (PDF). City of San Francisco. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
2. "San Francisco Landmark #110: Italian American Bank". noehill.com. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
3. "The Italian American Bank Building". Architect and Engineer of California of San Francisco. Vol. XI, No. 2. June 1907. pp. 35–36.
4. Woodbridge, Sally Byrne (2002). John Galen Howard and the University of California: The Design of a Great Public University Campus. University of California Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-520-22992-1.
5. Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Gibbs Smith. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4.