The Bank of Burbank was a bank in
Burbank, Oklahoma
Burbank is a town in western Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 141 at the 2010 census, a 9 percent decrease from the figure of 155 recorded in 2000.
History
Burbank was founded in 1903 on the Osage Reservation. The fo ...
, and its historic
bank building survives. The building was built in 1910. The bank operated through the Great Depression and continued in business until 1948 when the bank ceased operating. The building was used for 30 years as the Burbank post office, and subsequently was renovated for use as a private residence.
[ PDF is just the two pages covering Bank of Burbank, which appear as pages 9-10 within the full "Richardsonian Romanesque Banks of Osage County Thematic Resources" text document. Wit]
accompanying five photos of Bank of Burbank from 1983
The two text pages and the five photos plus captions are available in one combo PDF file at NARA. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
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The building is a single-story small commercial building, built of native sandstone and having a coursed ]ashlar
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Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...
finish. It is about in plan. It has a flat roof with a parapet
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of surrounding all sides but the rear.[
It is one of four small bank buildings built in ]Richardsonian Romanesque
Richardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style, style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revivalism (architecture), revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century ...
style in Osage County, Oklahoma
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, during 1904–1911.[ 17 pages. Does not include associated photos. A partial version of seven pages omitting the continuation pages with specific information about each of the four banks, and also not including associated photos, is available from the ]National Park Service
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at and also from the Internet Archive a
available at Internet Archive
The others are Bank of Hominy, Bank of Bigheart, and Osage Bank of Fairfax.
The building stands alone, with no adjoining buildings, on the northwest corner of First St. and McCorkle St. in Burbank.Google Streetview
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imagery of April 2009, accessed February 15, 2023, shows it standing, apparently in use as a residence (there are no commercial signs). 2023 Google satellite view shows no apparent change.
References
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in Oklahoma
1910 establishments in Oklahoma
1948 disestablishments in Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places in Osage County, Oklahoma
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