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First Bank of Joseph building

A Main Street building that connects banking and local historical memory.

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Joseph and the surrounding valley, with Wallowa Lake and the mountains beyond. Community context for this record.
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Joseph and the surrounding valley, with Wallowa Lake and the mountains beyond. Community context for this record.

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The county museum dates this building to 1888 and describes the bank’s occupation of the front portion for approximately 25 years. The structure now houses the museum.

The building’s entry in Oregon’s historic-site inventory provides a second source for identifying the place. Its former and present uses are linked without treating them as the same institution.

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Also known as: First Bank of Joseph

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1888

Construction date given by the museum.

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1978

National Register listing reported by the museum.

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Present museum use · 1977 onwardWallowa County Museum
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Around Joseph, in photographs.

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A street scene in Joseph, photographed in April 2013.View photograph
Joseph

Joseph, Oregon.jpg

Visitor72013-04-09
An aerial view of Joseph and the fields around its streets.View photograph
Joseph

Town and working fields

Sam Beebe2007-07-08
Wallowa Lake and the valley, seen from Mount Howard.View photograph
Wallowa Lake

The valley from Mount Howard

Finetooth2010-09-17
The larger story

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Brick storefronts along a street in Enterprise.
Chapter 03 Towns & settlement

Every main street has many lives.

An influenza-delayed theater, a bank with a hospital upstairs, and a pharmacy sharing a roof with a lodge: follow the rooms where the valley’s towns repeatedly remade their lives.

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