For this Bank of America photoset, Julius Shulman took a trip to the coast (well, a couple of streets away). This is
"Job 1005: Bank of America (Santa Monica, Calif.),1951".
These pictures don't come with locations, and I sometimes worry that there won't be enough clues to find where they were taken. Luckily, the Bay Cities Guaranty Building (aka the Clock Tower Building) places this branch at Santa Monica Boulevard and 3rd Street. On the right is the extant Junipher Building (more on that below).
Here's the view looking east.
All from
Getty Research Institute
Here's a reminder of a view of the Bay Cities Guaranty Building that we've seen before, complete with large 6s on the clock. This image is dated as "between 1923 and 1933", and also shows the Bank of America building and the cafe from the Shulman photos.
California State Library
The Bank of America building stood on a site previously occupied by the Dudley Building. We discussed that back in March.
ProphetM posted an article about the Dudley building in
post #27234, and I posted a current view in
post #27231. Just like the Bank of America at 1st and Pine in Long Beach, this one has also become an Italian restaurant. Trastevere has preserved the panels over the windows on the 3rd Street side, but the other details have been lost.
GSV
The block with the cafe to the west of the bank has gone, but the Junipher Building is still standing. Google was convinced that I meant "Juniper Building", but the "H" is clearly visbile in the Shulman photo.
GSV
The quotes below are from a City Landmark Assessment and Evaluation Report about the Junipher Building that I found at
santa-monica.org. It's a 52 page PDF file that also contains a load of extra information, newspaper clippings, maps and planning permits. Amusingly, they misspell the building's name as "Juniper" in the very first word of the document!
When initially constructed in 1912, the building was of three stories high and five bays wide along its south (Santa Monica Boulevard) elevation. In 1922, three additional bays were added onto the east (rear) side of the structure. Three years later, a fourth floor was added that modified the original cornice line from one with large decorative brackets set below an extended cornice to the current configuration of an ornate frieze with terra cotta embellishments.
And some background on the Juniphers:
Alexander A. Junipher. Alexander A. Junipher was born in 1827 in Nelsonville, Athens County. He eventually relocated to Hocking County, Ohio where he was a farmer and land owner. He and his wife Julia Bingham Barlett Junipher (1834-1928) were married in 1869 in Ohio. In the later part of the 19th century he was owner of several land holdings and building improvements throughout Hocking County. They had one daughter, Mary Adelaide Junipher (Adelaide Junipher) who was born in 1881 in Ward, Ohio. Junipher’s daughter Adelaide eventually met and married Doctor John S. Hunt with whom she moved to Santa Monica with where he set up and continued his medical practice. Upon selling most of his property in Ohio, A.A. Junipher and his wife Julia moved to Santa Monica in 1904. He was just over 77 years old at that time. They moved in and lived with John and Adelaide Hunt while the Junipher Building was being constructed. Alexander Junipher passed away at his residence at the Hunt’s home on November 22, 1914; only a few years after the building that bears his name was completed. Julia Junipher continued to live with the Hunt family until her passing in 1928. The development and construction of the Junipher Building appears to have been a collaborative investment effort between the Junipher’s and the Hunt family. Besides being an economic investment, the building was probably also constructed as a physical tribute to A.A. Junipher on behalf of John and Adelaide Hunt. Of course it served another role as the office of Hunt’s medical practice.
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