The First State Bank of Baggs, also known as the Bank Club, is a building in

Baggs, Wyoming Baggs is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 411 at the 2020 census. Baggs is home to the ''Outlaw Stop'', a branch of the Little Snake River Museum, which is headquartered in Savery. Geography The town is appr ...

, USA. Built in 1907–08 to house a bank, it is one of the relatively few original buildings left in Baggs. After the bank closed in 1924, the building became a doctor's office and, during

Prohibition Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic b ...

, it housed a bootleg liquor business. After Prohibition was repealed it became Baggs Liquor. In 1946, it was renamed the Bank Club Bar. with The one story log structure is covered by stamped sheet metal and has a

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

pedimented front with

Ionic columns The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian. There are two lesser orders: the Tuscan (a plainer Doric), and the rich variant of Corinthian called the composite ...

''in antis'' between Doric pilastered walls. The First State Bank of Baggs was placed on the

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on September 13, 1984.

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First State Bank of Baggs
at the Wyioming State Historic Preservation Office {{NRHP in Carbon County, Wyoming National Register of Historic Places in Carbon County, Wyoming Commercial buildings completed in 1907 Greek Revival architecture in Wyoming Defunct banks of the United States