Baker Boyer National Bank is a
Walla Walla, Washington based
financial institution. It opened in 1869, making it the first
bank in what would become the State of Washington.
It was the first Walla Walla bank to open a branch office. Bank CEO Mark Kajita is the third non-family President and CEO of the organization and was preceded by Baker Boyer's Board Chairman, Megan Clubb, a descendant of bank founder Dorsey S. Baker.
In 2010, the bank closed its branch in
Weston, Oregon
Weston is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. It was originally a post office called Mitchell's Station, established in February 1867. In September 1869, T.T. Lieuallen renamed the post office after his hometown, Weston, Missouri. The ...
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The bank building in Walla Walla, built , was designed by the
Beezer Brothers architectural office in Seattle.
It is a seven-story office building with a colonnade of Ionic columns spanning the lower two floors at the front. This building was the first skyscraper in Walla Walla.
[''Baker-Boyer Bank Building.'' In: Jeffrey Karl Ochsner: ''Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition'', 2017, 2. Neuauflage, S. 176. ISBN 978-0-295-80689-1. ()]
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Banks based in Washington (state)
Banks established in 1869
Walla Walla, Washington
1869 establishments in Washington Territory
Companies based in Walla Walla County, Washington
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