Pioneer Trust Bank (109 Commercial St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Pioneer Trust Bank (109 Commercial St NE) has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Salem Downtown State Street-Commercial Street Historic District. The following information has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 100002368
- Date Listed
- September 28, 2001
- Name
- Salem Downtown State Street-Commercial Street Historic District
- Other Names
- Salem Downtown Historic District
- Address
- Roughly bounded by Ferry, High, Chemeketa, and Fronts Sts.
- City/Town
- Salem
- County
- Marion
- State
- Oregon
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; COMMERCE; SOCIAL HISTORY; ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Classification: Historic Contributing (Listed as a Local Landmark)
Historic Name: United States National Bank of Salem/Pioneer Trust Bank
Current Name: Pioneer Bank and Trust
Year of Construction: 1909; c. 1960s ground floor; addition, west side, c. 1990s
Legal
T7S/R3W/Sec 22, Salem Add. blk 48, from Lot L4, Tax lot 3800
Owner(s): Pioneer Trust Company, POB 2305 Salem, OR 97308
This is a five-story Commercial style building situated on the northwest comer of Commercial and State streets. It is a reinforced concrete building with a white pressed brick front, surfaced in black granite at the street level, with a storefront entrance at the north end of the building. There are no awnings or canopies on the building. It has a projecting cornice with large medallion blocks and carved brackets as well as a torus molding belt course between the fourth and fifth floors. All ornamental work is cast stone.
The windows have been replaced with aluminum, but the fenestration pattern remains on the second through fifth floors, and consisting of single flat arched openings and stone sills. The west and south side windows have segmental arched openings and double hung windows, some of wood, most with aluminum sash.
Ground floor alterations are not uncommon for commercial structures. The scale and massing of this building provides the majority of its historic features so that the first floor changes do not significantly diminish its contribution to the character of the district.
A very small one-story brick addition was recently (c. 1990s) constructed on the west rear wall of the bank building and faces State Street. It does not significantly impact the integrity of the building and it continues to contribute to the historic qualities of the downtown.
