Fair Value Measurements - Balance Sheet Grouping (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Mar. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Carrying Amount
Financial assets:
Loans held for sale	$ 752	$ 1,569
Loans, net	2,033,168	1,991,387
Financial liabilities:
Borrowed Funds	46,671	10,671
Subordinated debt	14,837	14,834
Carrying Amount \| Certificates of Deposit
Financial liabilities:
Certificates of deposit	215,518	227,257
Fair Value
Financial assets:
Loans held for sale	773	1,569
Loans, net	2,037,816	1,997,887
Financial liabilities:
Borrowed Funds	46,669	10,670
Subordinated debt	14,046	14,011
Fair Value \| Certificates of Deposit
Financial liabilities:
Certificates of deposit	214,768	226,536
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1
Financial assets:
Loans held for sale	0	0
Loans, net	0	0
Financial liabilities:
Borrowed Funds	0	0
Subordinated debt	0	0
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1 \| Certificates of Deposit
Financial liabilities:
Certificates of deposit	0	0
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 2
Financial assets:
Loans held for sale	773	1,569
Loans, net	0	0
Financial liabilities:
Borrowed Funds	46,669	10,670
Subordinated debt	0	0
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 2 \| Certificates of Deposit
Financial liabilities:
Certificates of deposit	214,768	226,536
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3
Financial assets:
Loans held for sale	0	0
Loans, net	2,037,816	1,997,887
Financial liabilities:
Borrowed Funds	0	0
Subordinated debt	14,046	14,011
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3 \| Certificates of Deposit
Financial liabilities:
Certificates of deposit	$ 0	$ 0

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Fair value portion of deposit liabilities held by the entity, including, but not limited to, foreign and domestic, interest and noninterest bearing, demand deposits, saving deposits, negotiable orders of withdrawal (NOW) and time deposits.

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Fair value of subordinated debt obligations including, but not limited to, subordinated loan, subordinated bond, subordinated debenture or junior debt.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Fair value portion of loans held-for-sale including, but not limited to, mortgage loans and finance receivables.

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Fair value portion of loan receivable, including, but not limited to, mortgage loans held for investment, finance receivables held for investment, policy loans on insurance contracts.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Glossary Loan
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6517073

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