{"nrhp_refnum":"00000320","name":"First National Bank of Oakdale Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"338 East F St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oakdale","county":"Stanislaus County","state":"CA","lat":37.766909534000035,"lon":-120.84770475699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story yellow brick Romanesque bank building with a round clock tower at 338 East F Street in Oakdale, Stanislaus County, California, completed in 1909 for the First National Bank, founded by Edward and William Rodden.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building was at the center of Oakdale's 20th-century development under Criterion A (Economics). The bank financed farms, the canning industry, ranching and downtown construction, and it survived the Depression. The building also retains its integrity as a landmark at the entrance to downtown.","narrative":"Completed in 1909, this two-story yellow brick bank building anchors the entrance to downtown Oakdale, California. Its two wings, along F Street and Yosemite Avenue, meet at a round clock tower with a domed roof and a Seth Thomas clock. The Romanesque design shows influence from Richardsonian landmarks and from classical buildings that followed the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Arched second-floor windows, terra-cotta keystones, a bracketed cornice and two small pediments, one dated 1909, decorate the exterior. The bank was founded in 1904 by brothers Edward and William Rodden, who had earlier run a general store. Its loans supported irrigated farms, the Pacific Pea Packing Company, ranching, and several downtown buildings, and the bank outlasted the Depression. The Rodden family sold it in 1948, and the bank left the building in 1955. Today the city owns it, and most of it is vacant apart from two small shops on the first floor.","period_of_significance":"1909-1948","architect_builder":"Rodden, Edward; Rodden, William","architectural_style":"Romanesque","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Mostly vacant; two small stores occupy part of the first floor. The city owns it and plans to seek a developer to rehabilitate and reuse it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.86651-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/00000320.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000320/ce2cd8f8fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000320/ce2cd8f8fd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NoeHill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_national_bank_of_oakdale.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NoeHill</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_national_bank_of_oakdale.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862154","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133554747"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/stanislaus-county/first-national-bank-of-oakdale-building-00000320/"}