Bankers Building

Landmark Context

Bankers Building is publicly anchored at 105 W. Adams St by the landmark designation record. The current city data lists it as dating to a construction date of 1927 and credits Burnham Brothers, Inc. It was designated on November 8, 2025. Bankers Building gives researchers a way to connect bank architecture, neighborhood finance, and commercial corridor change to one actual site.

Bankers Building becomes materially clearer through corner siting, main banking-floor windows, and ornamental emphasis, how the building handles the sidewalk and intersection, and signs of later retail conversion or subdivision. This is where the landmark shifts from designation to evidence about how neighborhood banking remained visible even after the original institution was gone.

Research Starting Points

Bankers Building can be checked against bank histories and business directories, permit files and assessor records, and newspaper coverage of openings, failures, and later reuse when the designation summary runs out. Those records make it easier to test what changed, what remained, and how the building fit into a larger local story.

Bankers Building is already usable now without pretending the historical work is finished.