. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ce in in\estnient, yet the actual amount of money to hecharged to advertising is not great. This point about advertising is not imaginary. The difference in a])pcar-ance of substantial wealth between a one-story bank building and a bank inan office building is that between a man living in an ajjartment h<iuse andone owning his own residence. The tenant in the ai)artment house mayeven own the building, hut no one knows it without looking it up in therecords. It at times becomes necessary in the growth of a young city to hold th
. The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast . ce in in\estnient, yet the actual amount of money to hecharged to advertising is not great. This point about advertising is not imaginary. The difference in a])pcar-ance of substantial wealth between a one-story bank building and a bank inan office building is that between a man living in an ajjartment h<iuse andone owning his own residence. The tenant in the ai)artment house mayeven own the building, hut no one knows it without looking it up in therecords. It at times becomes necessary in the growth of a young city to hold thebusiness population in an established district, so that property values willnot decrease and the patronage of a bank will increase: or to develop bank-ing business in a new section, offices are re(|uired. When sticii occasionsarise then it is that a banking institution is justified in building a skyscraperhome, but even then of such a design that <ine will say, witlioui looking atthe signs on the door, This is a bank building. 60 The Architect and Engineer. INTERIOR CAPITOL NATIONAL BANK, SALEM, OREGONJohn V. Bennes, Architect 77(1 .Ircliitcct (111(1 liiii^iiK-cr 61 Architecture of the Capitol National Bank, Salem, Ore. THE Capitol National Bank of Salem. Oreijon, has taken a new departurein bank architecture, the style hcint^- an a(lai)tation of the earliest classicGrecian—the early Doric of the sixth century Ciirist. The entablature consists of the architrave, which is in one member. Thefrieze is without ornament, as is the cornice above it. This entablature restsupon clustered Doric pilasters, from which also spring the Roman archest\)rming; the broken vaulted ceilinsj. The long, plain ceiling spaces of themiddle section are relieved by oblong alcoves. The room is lighted by a sky-light in six .sections, with the white metal l)or(lcr in (Ireek key design, theinterstices of which furnish ample ventilation. The floor is of white flint tile. The walls to the heii^
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