Arthur Putnam
Bank of California
Bank of California
400 California Street
Architect: Bliss & Favill
The Bank of California was founded in 1864 by William C. Ralston, D.O. Mills, and their friends with two million dollars capital an astonishing sum for that time. The bank that Ralston built on the site of the present structure was a magnificent Classical-Italianate palace, town down prior to 1906.
The present bank, designed by Bliss & Favill and completed in 1908, is a most impressive granite-surfacd Corinthian temple of finance, with a magnificent main banking room of Roman proportions and Tennessee marble facing. Arthur Putnam did the marble mountain lions at the rear of this room, and the ram’s head at the entrance.
400 California Street
Architect: Bliss & Favill
The Bank of California was founded in 1864 by William C. Ralston, D.O. Mills, and their friends with two million dollars capital an astonishing sum for that time. The bank that Ralston built on the site of the present structure was a magnificent Classical-Italianate palace, town down prior to 1906.
The present bank, designed by Bliss & Favill and completed in 1908, is a most impressive granite-surfacd Corinthian temple of finance, with a magnificent main banking room of Roman proportions and Tennessee marble facing. Arthur Putnam did the marble mountain lions at the rear of this room, and the ram’s head at the entrance.