Courtesy of Don Marquette

Looking east on Garrison Avenue from the 500 block of the street circa 1901 to 1907, the First National Bank building is visible as the fourth building from the right and on the southeast corner of the intersection of the avenue and South Sixth Street. The corner remains the home of the bank in 2006, but it makes its home in the eight story, white tile brick building constructed at the same location. Construction of the current bank building was begun in 1909 and finished in 1910. The Hotel Main is visible just to its left. Across Garrison, first on the left, the Eberle Block stood. It was the first home of Merchants National Bank. Check out these views of the Eberle Block and the Bennett Hotel that later occupied it.


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