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Show IMPROVED BY EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS MADE DURING 1921 I I I gffffgfl II Ifnlargement of Ogden State Bank Is Planned x) Care for Various Departments, While Se- . curity State. Commercial National and I National Bank of Commerce Made Changes in the Past Year H Bgtenalve building and equipment improvements Cut were curried through during the past year bj three Ogden bjnks and which are now being planned for another stand BS important import-ant developments r the year for g- den. These betterment have not only shown thai the Ogden banks anxious to have adequate facilities for handling the bus. ness (,f theii ousto- i:icm, but also that they have absolute confidence In the future of the city The Ogden State Iiho.. occupying a large portion of the Reed hotel build-mg build-mg main floor, is to expand this banking room hy Improvements which will soon be Underway. The plrui" call for the utilization of the entire west sfd of the Reed hotel building, the store loom at the south side being vacated va-cated hy Its preSent tenant and the floor raised to a level with that of the bauk. The basement ,ili he otilivd for safety deposit vaults and rest rooms, the main floor will be re-arranged to better handle present . de-la de-la rtnients including lite new trust department and a mezzanine floor will be built for the book-keeping ami clerical office. Included in thla cnange will be prov ision for addl- ; tlonal space for the savings depart-ment, depart-ment, on" of the most Important fea-j tures "f the bank. liX.Mv is i.m URGED The Sm initv State bank, in rebuilding rebuild-ing Its splendid quarters in the Fred J. Klcsel building arranged for the safety deposit boxes, plated in the; basement and accessible from the! main floor, a stairway being built I from the lobby. The changes In this' bunking house have practically dou- j bled tho room for the financial Inst-J tutlon, providing adequate ofHce room for the bank officials, an. excellent df-. rectors' room, lobby and the sections for the tellers and the bookkeepers. New fixtures wore Installed and lighting light-ing arrangements of the latest type secured. The changes have made this banking room one ot the best In the city. Extensive alterations were also made in the Commercial National hank, where Stairways, walls and lob-I lob-I bte3 at the tront of the banking bouue 'wore cut away and more fu.ii. i provided provid-ed for the banking offices, for the customers' cus-tomers' lobbv and fur the accounting rooms. Formerly a considerable portion por-tion of the hank frontage was taken for a stairway leading to thn second floor. This has been done away with, ihe stairway leading to the upper portion por-tion of the building being placed in the rear. In the alterations of the National Hank of Commerce, a shifting of the executive offices for the president. cashier and assistant cashier was "made from the rear of the banking I I i the very front. At tho same m tmT.dlng that H ihe savings departent. was made more convenient for banking work. 1 H The savings department occupies that H portion which wax formerly urd for the executive offices l -. LATl 81 I IM Theie- .iterations in working ar- H a n g. men s for the (igdrn banks hav leen made after thorough tudy of the inking houses throughout the eouh- I try. Many visiting bunkers and nth- I-" lure that the Ogden banks are as modern and complete in their H equipment ns csn be found anvwhere. H location of the eight Ogden bnnk I th ery center of the city Is also equentiy commented upon by vl tors. They are all within one and a H blocks from e,,ii other, three I ffl of them are on one corner and six are Within a naif block or the Twenty-fourib Twenty-fourib street and Washington aenu I But evn though the banks are in- H at-d in such close proximity, they an so pis ted thai thej are scattered ,1 I through the retail business district snd eH are easily nccesslble for all business . nuruoses. It Ik a noteuhle f.-icr th.it I BBH they are all on the "loop" of the street rallWay System and the naln thor- H ough fares of the otty. H Each of the iigden banks is located a spKndhl structure. The Ogden Btate bank has become prominent as I ocr uiying the main portion of the Kvod hotel bulldlnj I building I Ing oWned by President H. C. Blgelo.v H The First National bank and the I ogden Savings bank are In the First Onal bank's five-story minding a. I Twenty-fourth street and Washington H one of the office structures of I I the fH floor of which is entirely used by the hank, ls owned by the I'tah National eH bank, this being at the southeast cor- bH nr of Twenty-fourth street and i bH laahlngton avenue. J The National Bank of Commerce j I 'has it" large building, especially built I jfor banking purpow - about hair way H reen Twent 'fourth and Twenty LS fifth streets on Washington avenue, H A banking house or equal Interest H Is that owned by the Commercial Na- B ; tlonal bank, a two-story structure on H Twenty-fourth street, between Hud- H -"in and Washington avenues. H The Security State bank has its hanking house on the main floor of H the Fred J. Klese) hulldlns. the splon- I lid strut ' ure Twenty-fourth H Hudson avenue. Ogden's youngest bank, the Gnaran- I ty Trust i ompany, has quarters in the Orpheum theatre building. |