type="block" width="176" height="1"> Historical Building Tour Click Here to Go Back 1 Screen Delta House 233 Main Street. L
Built in 1889. Currently an assisted living facility. The Delta House is associated with the significant patterns of development of the City of Delta. Records show that the building was built in 1889 and perhaps complete by 1890. The Delta House was the first hotel in Delta and was used in those early days as a place for traveling salesmen to display their dry goods. Rooms were available by 1895 when a horse drawn carriage from the Delta House met guests at the narrow gauge train station and were transported to the hotel. Throughout the years, notables who came to town stayed at the Delta House: governors, senators, politicians and show people performing at the Opera House next door. The Delta House "kept up with the times" enjoyed a reputation for its modern rooms and fine dining. Stories abound regarding the colorful charactgers and some raucous good times at the old hotel. Delta County Bank, 310-305 Main Street.
Built in 1892 L/S/N
Currently the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center. Construction of the Delta County Bank marked the first instance in Delta of the Victorian Romanesque architectural style. This Delta landmark is easily identifiable by its prominent corner tower with the pyramidal roof. The tower extends three stories and is supported by polished granite column and square capital decorated with acanthus leaf motif and similar capitals embedded at the corner entrance. The pressed tin cornice on the tower features brackets while the cornice on the 2nd floor has dentils. Second story windows alternate between round arches with keystones and tall, slender windows with flat lintels. A restaurant is also housed in the bank building Delta National Bank, 360 Main Street
Built in 1910. L/S Currently Delta City Hall. The Delta National Bank found great succes with this location and was the only bank in town to survive the Great Depression. It was the first bank to have a modern drive up teller window in 1958. The City of Delta purchased the building in 1967 after the bank constructed a new building across the street. The architecture of this building is the only example in Delta of vernacular adaptation  Beaux Arts Classicism and features fluted, ionic pilasters on vermiculated and rock-faced stone plinths, pressed metal cornice and Doric columns on each side of the entrance. An ornamental semi-circular head surrounds the corner entrance which also has a decorative panel with the buildings name. Presbyterian Church of Delta, 135 East 4th Street. Built in 1901. L
In the mid-1880's the town elders met and decided that Delta needed lots for five churches - Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, Catholic and Christian. They gave each church four city lots on corners near downtown in exchange for $1 and an agreement that the churches would erect buildings within two years.The Presbyterians erected a small white frame building and moved in June 1887. After 13 years the congregation had outgrown this building and construction began in 1901 of a new church built of bricks from Delta Brick and Tile. It was completed in 1903. In 1950 the brick surface was stuccoed but the rest of the exterior looks the same as it did in 1903. It features a high, steep, pitched roof and imposing, tall bell tower. In 1914 an annex was added and in 1968 Westminister Hall, to the west of church, was built. Click Here to go to next page: ht="109">