Exchange Bank Building
Life Span: 1862-1871
Location: Southwest corner Lake and Clark.
Architect:
- D. B. Cooke & Co.’s City Directory for the Year 1859-60
Alexander L. E. & Co., s.w. cor Clark and Lake (See advt front page)
Halpin & Bailey’s City Directory for the Year 1863-64
Rutter, Endicott & Co., s.w. cor. Clark and Lake, (See adv. p. 392)
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1866
Tyler, Ullman & Co., banker, 32 S. Clark, sw cor Lake and Clark
First National Bank, Edmund Aiken, pres Samuel M. Nickerson, vice pres. Lake, sw. cor. Clark1
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1867
First National Bank, Lake, sw. cor. Clark, C. R. Field cashier.
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
Hibernian Banking Association Savings Bank, J. V. Clarke, pres. Hamilton B. Dox, cash. Clark, sw. cor. Lake
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1871
Hibernian Banking Association Savings Bank, J. V. Clarke, pres. Hamilton B. Dox, cash. Clark, sw. cor. Lake
Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1854
The Farmer’s Bank has been removed to the new Granite building, corner of Clark and Lake Streets.
- The Exchange Bank
Chicago Tribune, March 31, 1862
New Banking House.—The advertisement of Messrs. Rutter, Endicott & Whitehouse, Bankers and Exchange Dealers, will be found in our advertising columns. The first two of the parties occupied for a long time responsible positions in the Banking House of Geo. Smith & Co., and are well known in business circles, and the third is a son Bishop Whitehouse. They occupy the rooms formerly belonging to the Exchange Bank, on the southwest corner of Clark and Lake streets. Commencing with an ample capital and with experience, a high order of ability and integrity, the house will at once command the confidence and a large patronage from the business public.
- Rutter, Endicott & Co.
Business District of Chicago
1862
- The Exchange Bank
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1869
NOTES:
1The First National Bank of Chicago opened July 1, 1863, at 22 LaSalle street, near Lake street. The next incident of importance was the election of E. G. Hall, on November 11, 1863, as a director to succeed James C. Fargo, who had resigned. Already the rooms occupied by the bank were becoming too small, and unfitted for its growing business; the officers were looking for new quarters. At the meeting of the board, December 8th, the action of the president in leasing a portion of the main floor in the Exchange Block, at the southwest corner of Clark and Lake streets, for five years, at an annual rental of $4,000, was approved. This address remained unchanged until the end of 1867
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