The Bank of Burbank was a bank in

Burbank, Oklahoma Burbank is a town in western Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 141 at the 2010 census, a 9 percent decrease from the figure of 155 recorded in 2000. History Burbank was founded in 1903 on the Osage Reservation. The foun ...

, and its historic bank building survives. The building was built in 1910. The bank operated through the Great Depression, and continued in business until 1948, when the bank ceased operating. The building was used for 30 years as the Burbank post office, and subsequently was renovated for use as a private residence. PDF is just the two pages covering Bank of Burbank, which appear as pages 9-10 within the full "Richardsonian Romanesque Banks of Osage County Thematic Resources" text document. Wit
accompanying five photos of Bank of Burbank from 1983
The two text pages and the five photos plus captions are available i
one combo PDF file at NARA
It was listed on the

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in 1984. The building is a single-story small commercial building, built of native sandstone and having a coursed

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finish. It is about in plan. It has a flat roof with a

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about surrounding on all sides but the rear. It is one of four small bank buildings built in

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...

style in

Osage County, Oklahoma Osage County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created in 1907 when Oklahoma was admitted as a state, the county is named for and is home to the federally recognized Osage Nation. The county is coextensive with the Os ...

, during 1904–1911. 17 pages. Does not include associated photos. A partial version of seven pages omitting the continuation pages with specific information about each of the four banks, and also not including associated photos, is available from the

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at and also from the Internet Archive a
available at Internet Archive
The others are

Bank of Hominy The Bank of Hominy, at W. Main St. and S. Price Ave. in Hominy, Oklahoma, is a building constructed in 1906, two years after the Oklahoma oil boom of 1904. It is one of four small bank buildings built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in Osage Co ...

Bank of Bigheart The Bank of Bigheart was a bank based in Barnsdall, Oklahoma and is also the name of its surviving historic commercial building, at 308 W. Main St. in Barnsdall. It is one of four small bank buildings built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in O ...

, and

Osage Bank of Fairfax The Osage Bank of Fairfax was the first bank building built in Osage County. It was built in 1904, at the time of the Oklahoma oil boom. It is one of four small bank buildings built in Richardsonian Romanesque style in Osage County, Oklahoma dur ...

. The building stands alone, with no adjoining buildings, on the northwest corner of First St. and McCorkle St. in Burbank.

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imagery of April 2009, accessed February 15, 2023, shows it standing, apparently in use as a residence (there are no commercial signs). 2023 Google satellite view shows no apparent change.

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Buildings and structures in Osage County, Oklahoma Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Oklahoma 1910 establishments in Oklahoma 1948 disestablishments in Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Osage County, Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub