The Bank of Lucas, Turner and Company is in the Jackson Square Historic District and is California Landmark 453.

Architect Reuben Clark designed the building and William Tecumseh Sherman supervised its construction. (Sherman is best remembered as Civil War General Sherman whose destruction of Atlanta and other Confederate cities is sometimes cited as the prototype for the total wars of the 20th Century.)

The building was originally three stories tall and the Montgomery street facade was more ornamented. The third story was removed after being damaged in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The Bank of Lucas, Turner and Company lasted only three years before being liquidated in 1857.