First National Bank

First National Bank

Located at 111 East Main Street, this two-story brick and stone veneer temple front commercial building was constructed in 1922. The building is three bays wide with full height Corinthian columns and pilasters on the main façade, the building’s storefront was altered ca. 1980 with the addition of metal and glass display windows and doors. On the second story of the upper façade are three bays of tri-part windows which are concealed behind metal grille panels. Above the second story is a stone cornice and frieze inscribed “First Community Bank.” Above this frieze is a cornice with modillion blocks and dentils. At the roofline is a stone parapet wall.  

This building was originally the First National Bank and was built in 1905 on a lot purchased from M.E. Benton. In 1922, the bank purchased the adjoining lot and building and remodeled and rebuilt the two buildings fronting forty feet on the square. The bank was robbed by Irish O’Malley and others on March 2, 1935. Eight thousand dollars was taken and the First National Bank had to borrow money from the Bank of Neosho to commence business the next day. The building is now home to First Community Bank.

(Bricks and Boards, Stone and Mortar: 1991 Neosho Historical Building Survey by the Neosho Historic Preservation Committee 1995)