Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1916-01-21
FIRST NATIONAL
GETS NEW HOME
Takes Ten Years Lease Beginning
October First ON Corner Room
of Building Now Occupied
by Emerson Co.

The First National bank OF Pull
man has long enjoyed the reputation
of being one of the strongest and
best managed financial institutions
of the Inland Empire. Its officers
are not only conservative bankers,
but enterprising citizens, always
looking ahead and planning for the
order to care for their growing bust
ness and to give Pullman the very
best banking facilities, more com
modious and modern quarters are
required. They endeavored to make
arrangements with the owners of
the building in which the bank is
now located to secure more room
but failed on account of the heavy
expense entailed in making the re-
quired alterations They then took
ten years lease on the corner room
in the building which will be vacated
by the Emerson Mercantile company
September l next. This building is
to be completely remodeled, almost
rebuilt, above the foundations, and
the plans show that the bank quar-
tiers, which are to be ready for oc-
cupancy on October |, will be as
handsome and well appointed as any
in the larger cities of the state.
The lease calls for a room % by
70 feet, with a front entrance from
Main street and a side entrance from
Alder street. The front and east
side walls of the building are to be
virtually torn down and replaced
with large plate glass windows with
prism light tops. The piers be-
tween the windows will DE covered
with white stucco, ornamented with
colored tiles. The entrance from
Main street will be in the center of
the banking room and opens into a
front lobby 11x40 feet. This lobby,
IL feet in width, will run back along
the east side of the room for 40 feet
The working quarters will be ar
ranged along the west side of the
room. In front will be the cashiers
desk and private office, 12x10. Back
OF the cashiers quarters will be five
cages for the tellers and clerks and
III the rear of the cages will be a
space for the bookkeepers. At the
north end of the cages there will be
ladies' room Axe, with a connect
ing toilet. Back of the working
quarters will be the fire-proof vault,
lOx15. At the back of the side
looDy will be located the directors
room, 13x17. Over the vault and
directors room there will be a mez-
canine floor, on which will be locat-
ed committee room, 12x12, for the
use of patrons of the bank and the
public. On this floor there will also
be a safety deposit vault 10x12. a
toilet room and small balcony
The lobby will be floored with hand
some thing and the working quart
ers with cork. New fixtures will be
installed of either marble or oak.
The bank has been put to con-
siderable inconvenience and expense
III arranging for these new quarters
out the officers felt that Pullman is
entitled to the best and that the de-
Velopment of the business will soon
Justify their enterprise. The max.
ing OF this new lease may result in
the bank having to move into TEN.
porary quarters after March /,
The officers plan to at once install
trust department in accordance
with the federal reserve regulations
which will permit the bank to act
as custodian of trust accounts and
executor of wills. This innovation
IN connection with it's present facil
lilies for handling mortgages, gives
the people of Pullman and vicinity
banking facilities on a par with those
enjoyed by residents of the big cities
and 1t Is safe to predict that after
October 1 next this community viii
have In It's midst not only one of the
strongest and most progressive
banks in the state of Washington
but also one of the handsomest ant
best appointed banking rooms.