Italian American Bank Explained

Italian American Bank
Location:	460 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Designation1:	San Francisco
Designation1 Number:	110
Designation1 Date:	April 6, 1980^[1]
Architect:	Howard & Galloway

Italian American Bank is a historic building built in 1907, and located on 460 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, California.^{[2] [3]} The Italian American Bank building has been listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark since April 6, 1980.

History

A brick building with 7-stories was in the same location, owned by the Italian American Bank, and was destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The 1907, a 2-story replacement building was designed by the architecture firm Howard & Galloway and built during a period of reconstruction in the neighborhood, using steel reinforced concrete, bricks, and granite.^[4] The Italian American Bank has a basement level.

The building was subject to facadism by architectural firm Roger Owen Boyer and Associates, and it was combined with the neighboring Borel & Co. building (1908), in order to create 456 Montgomery Plaza.^[5]

See also

• Fugazi Bank Building
• List of San Francisco Designated Landmarks

Notes and References

1. Web site: City of San Francisco Designated Landmarks. City of San Francisco. 2022-11-04.
2. Web site: San Francisco Landmark #110: Italian American Bank . 2022-11-13 . noehill.com.
3. Book: Architect and Engineer of California of San Francisco . June 1907 . XI, No. 2 . 35–36 . en . The Italian American Bank Building.
4. Book: Woodbridge, Sally Byrne . John Galen Howard and the University of California: The Design of a Great Public University Campus . 2002 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-22992-1 . 180 . en.
5. Book: Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel . An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area . 2007 . Gibbs Smith . 978-1-58685-432-4 . 11 . en.