Bank of Tryon Building, also known as the Tryon Daily Bulletin Building and Hester Building, is a historic

bank A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets. Because ...

building located at Tryon,

Polk County, North Carolina Polk County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,328. Its county seat is Columbus. The county was formed in 1855 from parts of Henderson and Rutherford counties. It was named fo ...

. It was built in 1907–1908, and is a two-story, two bay,

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

style brick and stone building. It features

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

quoin Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

s, second-story Palladian-type windows, and a projecting parapet. Since 1935, the building has been home to the ''

Tryon Daily Bulletin ''Tryon Daily Bulletin'' is an American, English language daily newspaper based in Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina; it also serves parts of Spartanburg and Greenville counties in South Carolina. History Known as "The World’s Smallest Dai ...

'', the world's smallest daily newspaper. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2008.

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Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Romanesque Revival architecture in North Carolina Commercial buildings completed in 1908 Buildings and structures in Polk County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, North Carolina 1908 establishments in North Carolina {{PolkCountyNC-NRHP-stub