1918
An organizational meeting is held for Anchor Savings, Building and Loan Association on December 11.

1919
First Annual Meeting of the new Association is held. The first Anchor office is opened at 1 E. Main St., Madison, with one desk, one chair, and one part-time employee.

1923
Anchor assets reach $534,221.74.

1928
Anchor moves its office to the Joseph M. Boyd Building at 4 S. Carroll St. in Madison. Assets number $1,415,299.27.

1939
Anchor purchases the Joseph M. Boyd Building and begins planning a new facility.

1940
Corporate name is officially changed to Anchor Savings and Loan Association.

1941
Anchor takes possession of its new two-story building at the corner of W. Washington and Carroll St.

1949
Anchor declares assets of $10,080,585.91.

1962
Anchor assets reach $104,158,288.91.

1964
Anchor Savings and Loan moves into its new 10-story office building at 25 W. Main St. in Madison.

1967
Anchor opens a full-service branch at Hilldale, the first savings and loan branch in Dane County.

1971
New branches are opened in Platteville and Monroe.

1974
Anchor opens branches at Sherman Plaza and on Bridge Rd. in Monona.

1975
Anchor opens a new branch in Sun Prairie and breaks ground to expand the downtown facility.

1976
Offices are opened in Boscobel and in the C & P Shopping Center on Cottage Grove Rd. on Madison's east side.

1978
Meadowood and Middleton (Century Ave.) branch offices are opened.

1979
The Hilldale branch office is expanded and new branches are opened in Lancaster and Darlington. Anchor assets surpass the $500 million mark.

1980
Anchor opens a grocery store location in Dodgeville and in July acquires an office in Kimberly through a merger with Kimberly Savings and Loan.

1981
Anchor opens a new location near West Towne Mall and adds the Janesville Racine St. location through a merger with Janesville Savings and Loan.

1982
Anchor purchases the offices of National Savings in Nakoma Plaza and Mount Horeb. Other new offices are established, through merger, in Prairie du Chien, Lancaster, Kieler, Chippewa Falls and Menomonie.

1983
A merger with First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Walworth County adds offices in Delavan and Lake Geneva.

1984
Anchor creates a new subsidiary, Anchor Insurance Services, and adds offices in New Glarus, Verona, Middleton (University Ave.) and Monona via the merger with Provident Savings. With the completion of the Provident merger, Anchor's assets top the $1 billion mark. Anchor sells its deposit base in Kimberly to East Wisconsin Savings and Loan Association in December.

1985
A new branch office is built in Dick's Supermarket in Prairie du Chien, and Anchor purchases the savings base of Security Savings' Madison offices, thus adding the East Towne location. Later in the year, the Atwood Ave., Oregon and Sun Prairie offices of Evergreen Savings and Loan are merged with the Anchor family.

1987
Anchor opens a second branch in Janesville. Following the merger with Columbus Federal Savings and Loan, Anchor adds offices in Columbus and DeForest.

1988
A merger with Richland Center Federal Savings and Loan adds offices in the communities of Richland Center, Darlington, Cuba City and Hillsboro, and a larger office to serve Dodgeville customers. Anchor also expands the service available in its East Towne office with the move to a new facility, establishes a new office in Waunakee and opens its first lending-only office in Oshkosh.

1989
The Lake Geneva deposit base is sold to Kenosha Savings and Loan, making the Lake Geneva office one of two lending-only facilities.

1990
A merger with Viroqua Federal Savings and Loan association of Vernon County adds an office in Viroqua. The Oregon branch's assets reach the $10 million mark and a new, permanent facility is constructed, replacing the trailer that formerly housed the branch.

1992
Anchor Savings approves the conversion of Anchor Savings and Loan to a stock form of ownership on May 28. Along with that conversion, Anchor changes its name to AnchorBank, SSB. The conversion is completed on July 15. Five million shares of common stock are issued at $10 per share to approximately 2,800 depositors. The Cuba City deposit base is sold to Mound City Bank on June 30.

1993
The Monona and South Towne offices are consolidated to form the new Monona office. It is the first to offer safe deposit boxes. The Hillsboro branch is sold to the Royal Bank of Elroy in February, and the Darlington branch is sold to First Citizen's National Bank. A lending-only office is opened in Appleton--the third lending-only office. The mortgage loan Refinance Express Center, at the Capitol Square office, becomes permanent. The Boscobel office is expanded in October.

1994
The Dodgeville offices move into a new facility with three drive-up lanes. Service is expanded in Verona and the number of drive-up lanes is increased from one to three.

1995
A new office in Stoughton opens June 5. Anchor purchases American Equity Bank, fsb, in Stevens Point, which expands AnchorBank's network of offices into 13 counties. The purchase closes June 30 and conversion takes place in mid-September. The Meadowood and Nakoma offices are combined and move to a new facility, which opens July 24. A new office is opened in the Econofoods grocery store in Plover on November 27. The DeForest office's lobby is remodeled, and three drive-up windows are added in December.

1996
AnchorBank opens two new "branches": TeleBranch, which opens August 1, offers 24-hour banking along with real bankers and loan officers who staff this telephone branch from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Anchor introduces its WebBranch at the same time. Customers can get information, ask questions, and open accounts using the Internet. The Appleton lending-only office moves to a new location on November 13.

1997
The Monroe office is remodeled and a new drive-up lane and night deposit box are added in January. Anchor expands its services in Oshkosh by adding a full-service office on March 3 to complement the lending-only facility. The two offices are consolidated into a full-service office in August. On May 14, AnchorBank opens an office in Kohl's Food Emporium on Madison's west side. In addition to being Anchor's first store office in Madison, Kohl's at Prairie Towne Center is also the first to be open seven days a week.

1998
The Capitol Square branch undergoes extensive remodeling to ensure customers have privacy as they make investments, take out loans and open accounts.

1999
FCB Financial Corp. merges into Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin. FCB Financial Corp. is the parent holding company of Fox Cities Bank. Fox Cities Bank's 13 branches become AnchorBank branches. In September, Anchor Insurance Services changes its name to Anchor Investment Services to reflect its repositioning as a provider of investment services like mutual funds and annuities. On October 4, AnchorBank opens its Fitchburg branch--the 49th full-service AnchorBank. Also on October 4, AnchorBank's Plover office moves to its new location at 2558 Post Rd., which offers a larger office and drive-up capabilities. The Neenah Downtown office moves into its permanent location at 3 Neenah Center on October 11. The Ripon office also moves into a new facility.

2000
In June, two new lending-only offices open: one in Green Bay, where the facility is a natural extension of the Fox Valley area, and the second in Hudson, Wisconsin, near the Minnesota border. In July, AnchorBank becomes a federal stock savings association. AnchorBank, S.S.B., becomes AnchorBank, fsb.

2001
On June 15th, Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. and Ledger Capital Corp announced a definitive agreement to merge Ledger with and into Anchor. Ledger has 4 full-service offices in 3 Wisconsin cities in the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area. They opened as AnchorBank offices on November 12, 2001. Anchor's Green Bay office was converted from a lending only office to a full-service office when it moved to its new facility in Howard on December 17, 2001.

2003
AnchorBank's expansion efforts were concentrated in the greater Milwaukee area. A new bank in Menomonee Falls was opened on November 10 and a new bank in Franklin was opened on December 15. Two new banks were built and, after they moved, the old buildings were sold. The Viroqua bank moved to its new location on October 6, and the Berlin bank moved to its new location on November 4. In Columbus, the old building was donated to the city of Columbus and was moved. The new Columbus bank opened April 7. Extensive remodeling and/or additions of drive-up facilities, commercial night depositories and ATMs occurred at our Winneconne, Prairie du Chien and Lancaster banks.

2004
A new bank was built in Boscobel next to our closed grocery store bank office. The new bank opened on July 30, 2004. On September 20, 2004, AnchorBank opened its second bank in the Green Bay area. The new bank is located in Bellevue.

2005
AnchorBank crosses the $4 billion mark in assets, finishing the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 with $4.05 billion in assets. Anchor opens its 60th location on September 12, 2005 in the village of Sussex, some twenty miles west of Milwaukee. The Sussex bank is AnchorBank's seventh location in the Milwaukee area.

2006
AnchorBank opens its 61st location on February 6, 2006 in De Pere, Wisconsin, just south of Green Bay. The De Pere location is AnchorBank's third location in the Green Bay area. Anchor Investment Services, Inc., formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of AnchorBank, is integrated into the bank as a department continuing to operate as Anchor Investment Services, offering a full array of investment products and services. AnchorBank's West Towne, Hilldale and Cottage Grove offices are remodeled. AnchorBank's Mt. Horeb office moves into a new facility on September 5.

2007
In April, AnchorBank moved its branch located in Copp's (formerly Kohl's) grocery store on the far west side of Madison into a new stand-alone office on Junction Road, also on the far west side of Madison. In addition, Residential Lending Operations were centralized at this new location. On July 11 Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. and S&C Banco, Inc., parent of S&C Bank, announced a definitive agreement to merge S&C Bank into AnchorBank. S&C is a $400 million community bank with 17 banking locations in northwestern Wisconsin and the greater Twin Cities area. On December 10, AnchorBank opened the doors to its 62nd location in Ashwaubenon. The new branch includes three drive-up lanes, a drive-up ATM and commercial night depository. The Ashwaubenon location is the 4th location in the Green Bay area.

2008
On January 2, 2008 Anchor BanCorp Wisconsin Inc. formally acquired S&C Bank of New Richmond, Wisconsin. S&C Bank is a $400 million community bank with 17 banking locations in Northwestern Wisconsin and the greater Twin Cities area. Anchor BanCorp also reached an agreement with Lake Area Bank, based in Lindstrom, Minnesota, to sell three S&C Bank branches that are located in Minnesota. AnchorBank intends to close the S&C Hudson branch and combine resources at AnchorBank's lending office in Hudson. AnchorBank now has a total of 73 branches and 2 lending-only offices in Wisconsin. AnchorBank opens its 76th location in Brookfield, Wisconsin on January 14, 2008. The branch is approximately 9,000 square feet and occupies two floors. The second floor is home to a new centralized commercial and residential lending center for the Milwaukee area. The Brookfield branch is the 8th AnchorBank location in the metro Milwaukee area and the 76th location statewide.