{"nrhp_refnum":"80000849","name":"Commercial and Savings Bank","other_names":["Bank of America Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"343 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stockton","county":"San Joaquin County","state":"CA","lat":37.953427367000074,"lon":-121.28465428399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ten-story steel-frame commercial bank building at 343 Main Street, Stockton, California, built in 1915 for the Commercial and Savings Bank and expanded in 1924, faced in red brick, Utah sandstone and terra cotta.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of Renaissance Revival architecture with strong Louis Sullivan influence, shown in its horizontal bands of detail and its enriched frieze and cornice. It also represents the early skyscraper era and the prosperity of the Southern Mine boom, which helped Stockton become known as the \"brick city\".","narrative":"At 343 Main Street in Stockton stands a ten-story bank building put up in 1915 for the Commercial and Savings Bank, a firm founded in 1903 by John D. Raggio. Built by Dietrich and Liestner at a cost of $250,000, it has a steel frame clad in red brick, Utah sandstone and terra cotta, with a polished granite ground floor added later. After a 1923 fire destroyed the neighboring Hotel Philson, a duplicate addition designed by Bakewell and Brown was built in 1924, creating an L-shaped plan. The Bank of Italy, later Bank of America, bought the building in 1929 and further additions followed in 1941 and 1965. Its design is described as Renaissance Revival with Louis Sullivan influence, with stacked bands of detail rising to an ornate cornice. It reflects the skyscraper era and the Southern Mine boom prosperity that earned Stockton the name \"brick city\". The bank has since left, and the owners hope to reuse it for offices.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Dietrich and Liestner Construction (original building); 1924 addition designed by Bakewell and Brown of San Francisco and built by Lewis and Green of Stockton","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival, with Louis Sullivan influence","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form lists the building as unoccupied/vacant; the text says Bank of America sold and abandoned it, and the new owners plan adaptive reuse as commercial and office space.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.360696-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/80000849.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000849/335625608b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000849/335625608b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Michael Aivaliotis","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton,_CA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Aivaliotis</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:Commercial_%26_Savings_Bank_-_Stockton,_CA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861373","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133505216"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-joaquin-county/commercial-and-savings-bank-80000849/"}