Baker Boyer National Bank is a
Walla Walla, Washington
Walla Walla ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. It had a population of 34,060 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, estimated to have decreased to 33,339 as of 2023. The combined populat ...
based
financial institution
A financial institution, sometimes called a banking institution, is a business entity that provides service as an intermediary for different types of financial monetary transactions. Broadly speaking, there are three major types of financial ins ...
. Founded in 1869, it is the first
bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts Deposit account, deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital m ...
in what would become the State of Washington.
It was the first Walla Walla bank to open a branch office. Current bank CEO Mark Kajita is the third non-family president and CEO of the organization and was preceded by Baker Boyer's board chairman, Megan Clubb, a descendant of bank founder Dorsey S. Baker.
In 2010, the bank closed its branch in
Weston, Oregon.
The bank building in Walla Walla, built , was designed by the
Beezer Brothers architectural office in Seattle.
It is a seven-story office building with a colonnade of Ionic columns spanning the lower two floors at the front. This building was the first skyscraper in Walla Walla.
[''Baker-Boyer Bank Building.'' In: Jeffrey Karl Ochsner: ''Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects, Second Edition'', 2017, 2. Neuauflage, S. 176. ISBN 978-0-295-80689-1. ()]
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Banks based in Washington (state)
Banks established in 1869
Walla Walla, Washington
1869 establishments in Washington Territory
Companies based in Walla Walla County, Washington
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