The building was constructed in 1915 from a design by Parker Berry, Louis Sullivan's chief draftsman at the time.

Berry died of the Spanish flu at age 30 in 1918, and the bank is the only surviving example of a commercial building he designed.

His design for the bank featured a red brick exterior with terra cotta ornamentation and piers topped with urns in front of the two side entrances.

[2] The bank was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 12, 1975.

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