Art Hub

In September 1911, word went out that Citizens Bank had come to Kingman to build a branch at Fourth and Beale, the town's main commercial corner. Lovin and Withers leveled the buildings there, dug the cellar, and by January 1912 had finished a two-story block with offices, a storefront, and the post office. When the much larger Central Commercial opened next door in 1917, this building was remodeled to match. It anchors the corner still, a survivor of Kingman's first real burst of downtown ambition.

What the plaque says

On September 2, 1911, it was announced that M.I. Powers of Flagstaff based Citizens Bank was in Kingman to meet local business leaders and to survey the site at the corner of Fourth and Beale Streets where a Kingman branch bank was to be built. Lovin and Withers were retained as the contractors that first leveled existing buildings and dug a cellar., Initial plans called for completion by late November of that year. But before construction commenced plans were adjusted to include a second story with offices, a store front, and post office. Except for interior details, the building was completed in January 1912., The building was remodeled after the opening of Central Commercial in 1917.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — steps away
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.
• Oatman — 22 mi
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Hackberry General Store — 23 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Central Commercial — steps away
• Depot — steps away
• Depot Plaza — steps away
• Miner's Mineral Monument — steps away