D.O. Mills Bank Building
Mills Bank Building, also called the D. O. Mills Bank Building, is a historical bank in Sacramento, California built in 1852 in Old Sacramento. The Mills Bank Building is a California Historical Landmark No. 594, registered on May 22, 1957. The Mills Bank was built by Darius Ogden Mills was the oldest and largest banks of early California.[1][2]
| Mills Bank Building | |
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 Mills Bank Building and J Street in 1912 | |
| Location | 629 J Street, Sacramento, California |
| Coordinates | 38.5827°N 121.5042°W |
| Built | 1852 |
| Architect | Willis Polk & Co. |
| Architectural style(s) | Neoclassical |
| Reference no. | 609 |
  Location of Mills Bank Building in California  D.O. Mills Bank Building (the United States) | |
History
Darius O. Mills came to Sacramento in 1848 at age 22 from North Salem, New York, set on looking for gold, he changed to trading. He pushes goods in San Francisco and took them up the San Joaquin River to see to California Gold Rush miners. From this he saw the need for bank to support the miners. With his brothers started the bank on the corner of 3rd Street and J Street. He incorporated the National Gold Bank of D. O. Mills and Company in 1872. The bank was very successful, in 1912, the a Mills new building was built at 7th Street and I Street. Darius O. Mills died on January 3, 1910, at Millbrae, California at the age of 84 years.[3]
In 1925 there was a combining of the banks of: California National Bank, the California Trust & Savings Bank and the National Bank of D. O. Mills. To house the new works the 3rd Street and J Street building was expanded, called the California National Bank. The Bank closed in 1933, after President Franklin D Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act of 1933. No depositors lost their funds after the closure. The building was sold to the State of California and used for the California Bureau of Vital Statistics, the California Industrial Accident Claims Board and other California offices. Bank of Sacramento opened at 812 J Street in 1963 and moved to form State building May 1966. [4] The Bank of Sacramento was merged into Security Pacific National Bank in August 1979. In 1990 the bank building was sold to private owneres. The bank building's first floor is the Sacramento Grand Ballroom. In 2017 a food court was added. Some of the bank building has been saved there are antique brass teller cages are original and Italian Marble bar railing. Also National Bank of D. O. Mills & Co. and Roman numerals 1912. are set into granite front of the building.[5][6][7][8]
References
- "Mills Bank Building #609". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- "CHL # 609 Mills Bank Building Sacramento". www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com.
- "D.O. Mills Bank Building (Landmark #609)!". March 22, 2015.
- Kelly, Kerrie (March 20, 2017). "The Bank at 629 J, Sacramento - Kerrie Kelly Design Lab". Kerrie Kelly.
- "Exterior view of the old D. O. Mills Bank building the state purchased to house the State Industrial Accident Commission and the Bureau of Vital Statistics in 1937". December 25, 1949 – via Calisphere.
- "D. O. Mills Bank and B. F. Hastings buildings" – via Calisphere.
- Historic downtown bank building being converted to food court, The Sacramento Bee sacbee.com March 12, 2017
- "California Historic Landmarks in Old Sacramento". December 24, 2022.