{"nrhp_refnum":"80000873","name":"Old Bank of America Building","other_names":["The Daily News"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"710 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Red Bluff","county":"Tehama County","state":"CA","lat":40.17783448500006,"lon":-122.23496143099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story Neoclassical bank building at 710 Main Street, at Main and Pine Streets in downtown Red Bluff, Tehama County, California, built about 1925 and designed by San Francisco architect William H. Weeks.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its link to the development of banking in Red Bluff and as the finest local example of Neoclassical bank styling of its period. It is also the work of William H. Weeks, a prolific and prominent California architect. Its corner location in the downtown core adds to its significance.","narrative":"Built about 1925 at 710 Main Street in downtown Red Bluff, this one-and-a-half-story bank building measures roughly 78 by 55 feet and has a full basement. It is built of concrete block and brick and sheathed in white terra cotta, with a flat roof, a parapet carved with scrolls and fans, and a recessed entrance porch with two concrete columns. Inside, the original ceiling rises about 21 feet and has ornate plaster pilasters, and three vaults remain. The Red Bluff National Bank built it, and it later passed through several banking successors until Bank of America sold it in 1959. It then sat empty for ten years before becoming a newspaper office. The building is considered the best local example of Neoclassical bank design, conveying a sense of monumentality suited to banking. San Francisco architect William H. Weeks designed it. Its prominent corner site contrasts with the older brick and frame buildings nearby.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"William H. Weeks","architectural_style":"Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied at the time of nomination by a newspaper, The Daily News; the building stood empty from 1959 to 1969, and a savings and loan planned to occupy it and restore original interior features.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.89895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/80000873.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000873/f56c28d4a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000873/f56c28d4a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NoeHill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Bluff_Bank_of_America_Building_September_2006.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:Red_Bluff_Bank_of_America_Building_September_2006.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862188","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bank_of_America_Building_(Red_Bluff,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7083426"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tehama-county/old-bank-of-america-building-80000873/"}