The First National Bank of Greenville is a historic building in

Greenville, Mississippi Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 34,400 at the 2010 census. It is located in the area of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta. H ...

Location

The building is located at 302 Main Street in Greenville, Washington County,

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

.Jim Fraiser, ''The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta'', Pelican Publishing, 2002, p. 5

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History

It was built in 1903 as the headquarters of the first bank chartered by the United States federal government in Washington County, Mississippi. It was designed in the Neoclassical architectural style by Knoxville, Tennessee architects Barber & Kluttz. It was established by James E. Negus, Jr., a

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veteran who had served in the

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and moved to Mississippi in 1870. It is now used as a public building for the Greenville Municipal Court.

Heritage significance

It has been listed on 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 ...

since January 30, 1978. It was listed again on the National Register in 1997 as a

contributing building In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

in the Greenville Commercial Historic District.

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Neoclassical architecture in Mississippi Office buildings completed in 1903 National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-stub