The Weyburn Security Bank Building (also referred to as the Imperial Bank of Canada Building) is located at 76 - 3rd Street in

Weyburn Weyburn is the tenth-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. The city has a population of 11,019. It is on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina and is north from the North Dakota border in the ...

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and is a two-storey building with a glazed terracotta façade. Backed by American interests, Weyburn Security Bank sought Minneapolis-based architectural firm of Long, Lamoureux and Long to designed the building in a Classical Revival and Chicago School that was more representative of banks in the Western US. The building is a designated Provincial Heritage Property. The building was built in 1910 for the

Weyburn Security Bank The Weyburn Security Bank was a chartered bank headquartered in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. The bank was established by a group of American investors as a private bank in 1910, by 1911 the bank had advanced to the point where it obtained a Can ...

that merged with the

Imperial Bank of Canada The Imperial Bank of Canada was a Canadian bank that operated from 1873 to 1961. In 1961, Imperial merged with the Canadian Bank of Commerce to become the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. History It was founded in 1873 as the Imperial Bank ...

in 1931. Today the building functions as an active

CIBC The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC; ) is a Canadian Multinational corporation, multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at CIBC Square in the Financial District, Toronto, Financial District of Toronto, Ont ...

branch. Although the building designed in US by Long, Lamoureux & Long, the building was erected under the supervision of Benjamin O. Boyum, who was sent from Minneapolis in 1910. Boyum is credited for a handful of other structures in Weyburn:http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/1185 * McKinnon & Company department store (117 3rd Street NE) * former Weyburn Town Hall (160 3rd Street NE)

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