Name/Title
Pinole HotelDescription
PINOLE HOTEL AND BANK OF PINOLE: The 19th century-built Pinole Hotel stood on the south side of San Pablo Avenue between Tennent and Valley avenues. It burned down in 1914. In 1915, Edward M. Downer, mayor of Pinole, opened the newly constructed Bank of Pinole on this site. Downer, the first official postmaster, transfer agent, and telegrapher of the Southern Pacific’s Pinole depot, and co-publisher of Pinole’s first newspaper, the Pinole Weekly Times, founded the Bank of Pinole in 1905.Copyright
Copyright Holder
Pinole Historical Society