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Clayton Banking Company Building

bank building in Clayton, North Carolina

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ19461027 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clayton Banking Company Building is a historic bank building located at Clayton, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was built in 1919–1920, and is a two-story rectangular brick block faced with Indiana limestone in the Beaux-Arts style. The front facade includes a pair of three-quarter Ionic order columns "in antis" framing the double front doors. The building houses the Clayton Chamber of Commerce.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Clayton Banking Company Building” as bank building in Clayton, North Carolina. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Clayton, Banking and Company.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 1920, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Clayton, Banking and Company providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Clayton Banking Company Building”, the useful work is to connect “bank building in Clayton, North Carolina” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19461027. Authority coordinates are 35.650, -78.458. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1920 and 1996.

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A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Clayton Banking Company Building”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Clayton Banking Company Building primary sources, Clayton Banking Company Building archive and Clayton research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Clayton Banking Company Building” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.