As has been reported in several places, the City of Davis is
at this time updating its
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1a. May 28, 1964 |
Indeed, I am so overwhelmed when I contemplate the task facing
the surveyors that I have retreated, at this time, to thinking only about a few
obvious candidate “historical resources” built in that 30-year period.
1b. May 28, 1964 |
One of the first candidates that came to mind was the “Alice
house” at 1303 Alice Street, on which I have written in the previous three
posts (numbers 186-88).
When I began to think about other candidate historical
resources, I asked myself about commercial buildings in the Downtown that were
built between 1945 and 1975.
One of the most obvious candidates, to me, is the Well Fargo
Bank building at 340 F Street.
There are, of course, a great many commercial buildings
built between 1945 and 1975 in the downtown. The problem, though, is that few
if any others stand out on any of the four criteria for assessing a place to be
an historical resource. I am certain, though, that other people will have
different ideas about this. (Below, I reproduce a copy of the criteria.)
Be all this as it may, as a volunteer on the historic
resources survey, I have sought to make a modest contribution to that work by
digging up some relevant information on the Wells Fargo Bank building (although
I have not cast that information in the technical terms required by the survey
forms).
So far, this information consists of four Davis Enterprise reports on the
planning, building, and opening of the building. They are reproduced here.
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2. December 10, 1964 |
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3. March 11, 1965 |
4a. April 13, 1965 |
4b, April 13, 1965 |