1892
Hibernia Bank
Hibernia Bank
One Jones Street
Architect: Albert Pissis
At the time of its construction in 1892, the bank was lauded by Willis Polk and like-minded admirers as the “most beautiful building in the city”. The building “clearly declares its purpose and the interior arrangement is plainly expressed by the exterior,” Polk wrote. Polk’s admiration has not been entirely displaced by time, for the Hibernia, like the Flood, is elegant and powerful.
One Jones Street
Architect: Albert Pissis
At the time of its construction in 1892, the bank was lauded by Willis Polk and like-minded admirers as the “most beautiful building in the city”. The building “clearly declares its purpose and the interior arrangement is plainly expressed by the exterior,” Polk wrote. Polk’s admiration has not been entirely displaced by time, for the Hibernia, like the Flood, is elegant and powerful.
Mills Building
MIlls Building
220 Montgomery Street
Architect: Burnham & Root
Designed by the famous Chicago firm of Burnham & Root and erected in 1891-92. This ten-story, foursquare brick structure picks up the Richardson Romanesque style in its massive, intricately-carved, arched entrance, in the arches crowning the modified Corinthian pilasters that delineate the vertical line of the building, in the repetition of the Romanesque arches in the ninth-floor frieze, and in the squat columns between the windows of the top story. Yet the building as a whole is a powerful expression of the style that was developing in Chicago in the heyday of Burnham and Sullivan and the young Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Mills Building was built by Darius Ogden Mills, a Forty-niner who parlayed a Sacramento shop into a partnership in William C. Ralston’s Bank of California, and went on to become one of the authentic financial moguls of late-nineteenth-century America.
Willis Polk supervised the reconstruction of the Mills Building after the fire of 1906, and was also in charge of the additions of the rear of the building, which he executed in the same style as the original. In 1931 the adjacent twenty-two-story Mills Tower was completed to the design of Lewis Hobart.
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220 Montgomery Street
Architect: Burnham & Root
Designed by the famous Chicago firm of Burnham & Root and erected in 1891-92. This ten-story, foursquare brick structure picks up the Richardson Romanesque style in its massive, intricately-carved, arched entrance, in the arches crowning the modified Corinthian pilasters that delineate the vertical line of the building, in the repetition of the Romanesque arches in the ninth-floor frieze, and in the squat columns between the windows of the top story. Yet the building as a whole is a powerful expression of the style that was developing in Chicago in the heyday of Burnham and Sullivan and the young Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Mills Building was built by Darius Ogden Mills, a Forty-niner who parlayed a Sacramento shop into a partnership in William C. Ralston’s Bank of California, and went on to become one of the authentic financial moguls of late-nineteenth-century America.
Willis Polk supervised the reconstruction of the Mills Building after the fire of 1906, and was also in charge of the additions of the rear of the building, which he executed in the same style as the original. In 1931 the adjacent twenty-two-story Mills Tower was completed to the design of Lewis Hobart.
Click Here> for the official website of the Mills Building