Warren Porter Skillings (d. 1939)

Warren Porter Skillings was a native of Portland, Maine. He went to Seattle as an architect after their 1889 fire, and then practised in Dawson between 1900 and 1902. He ended his career in California. The third Bank of Commerce building in Dawson City was probably built in 1901 on his design. It is an Italian Renaissance Revival style making liberal use of pressed tin metal for two exterior walls to imitate sandstone. Metal panels had been readily available in Canada since the early 1890s.¹⁾ The Dawson Canadian Bank of Commerce is on the Registry of Historical Places in Canada and is a National Historic Site.