Wells Fargo History Museum, Bank museum in downtown Phoenix, United States
The Wells Fargo History Museum occupied part of Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Phoenix, where raised gold letters reading "Wells Fargo &" and "Museum" were mounted on the concrete facade above an overhanging ledge. Inside were a replica of a 19th-century Wells Fargo bank branch, an authentic 1879 stagecoach and a replica coach visitors could climb aboard.
The Phoenix museum occupied space in the downtown Wells Fargo Plaza and was one of eleven Wells Fargo museums nationwide, alongside sites in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento and others. It traced the company's part in settling the Territory of Arizona. It shut in early 2020 under COVID-19 restrictions and closed permanently that September, as did most of the other Wells Fargo museums.
The museum's name comes from Wells Fargo, whose agents served the Territory of Arizona; exhibits traced that role through an 1879 stagecoach and a climb-aboard replica. A gallery held the largest collection of N.C. Wyeth's western illustrations, and a display honoured Captain Trustrim Connell, who settled in Phoenix in 1898.
The museum occupied Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Phoenix and closed permanently in September 2020 after shutting in early 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The entrance sign, gold capital letters on the concrete facade, is cropped in views from the left, so look for the full lettering from the right angle. The exhibits were spread across a single floor.
The museum displayed the Medal of Honor awarded to Captain Trustrim Connell on May 10, 1865, for seizing a Confederate flag at the Battle of Sailor's Creek in Virginia. Connell later ran all Wells Fargo business in Arizona and moved his family to Phoenix in 1898.
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