Days to be termed as non accrual loans.

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Significant Advanced Considered For Risk Rating Change

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Premiums over or discounts from face amounts of loans that are being amortized into income as an adjustment to yield.

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Amount of deferred fees paid by borrowers and unamortized costs incurred to originate loans and leases, unamortized loan commitments and loan syndication fees

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of financing receivables that have been modified by troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months and for which there was a payment default.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 34
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84173941&loc=SL6953682-111524

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Amount of investment related to financing receivables modified by troubled debt restructurings within the previous 12 months, for which there was a payment default.

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Loans, Allowance for Loan Losses and Credit Quality (Textual) (Details)	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) contract	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) contract	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) contract	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Subsequent Default, Recorded Investment	$ 0
Unamortized Loan Commitment and Origination fees	5,600,000		$ 5,600,000		$ 5,100,000
Significant Advanced Considered For Risk Rating Change			$ 50,000
Days to be termed as non accrual loans			90 days
Tdrs Recorded Investment On Nonaccrual Status	5,776,000		$ 5,776,000		5,199,000
Unamortized Discounts or Premiums	$ 9,800,000		$ 9,800,000		$ 8,600,000
Residential Real Estate [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Subsequent Default, Number of Contracts \| contract			1
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Subsequent Default, Recorded Investment			$ 205,000
Consumer Home Equity [Member]
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Subsequent Default, Number of Contracts \| contract		1		1
Financing Receivable, Modifications, Subsequent Default, Recorded Investment		$ 141,000		$ 141,000