Logan, ID Bank Fire, Apr 1912

Fire Consumes Bank Building

Thatcher Bros. Suffer the Loss of Imposing Structure – Securities and Money Are Safe

One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Cache Valley was that which consumed the elegant building owned by the Thatcher Banking company at Logan Wednesday and which entailed a property loss of $100,000. The origin of the fire is said to have occurred in the basement, but how, is still a problem.

The building in addition to housing the bank, the city offices, Sumner Hatch Real Estate, Promontory Curlew Land Co. John A. Crockett abstractor, and the Golden Rule, contained the elegant Opera House which has been the rendezvous of the pleasure going patrons of the temple city.

The building was built twenty three years ago at a cost of $70,000. In those days wooden beams were mainly used. The building while not of the latest style of architecture, was solidly constructed and was one of the imposeig [sic] structures of the city.

Today nothing but the walls remain – except the wall on the east over the Opera house entrance, twenty feet of that having fallen.

The bank opened business as usual in the temporary quarters where the city electric light company used to be a few doors west of the corner.

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