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The original 1879 French and Company Bank building was one of the first bank buildings in the territory east of the Cascades. Operated by brothers J.W. and D.W. French, it became a center for miners from as far east as Idaho and for sheep and stock men from hundreds of miles away. Gold shipped by way of the Oregon Steamship and Navigation Company was weighed and deposited there. The former building was modeled after the Ladd and Tilton Bank in Portland. It was razed in the late 1920s and replaced by the existing terra-cotta-finished structure, which was completed for the Citizen’s National Bank.
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