The Lawrence County Bank 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 100 West Commercial Street in

Pierce City Pierce City, formerly Peirce City, is a city in southwest Lawrence County, Missouri, Lawrence and northwest Barry County, Missouri, Barry counties, in southwest Missouri, United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2010 United States Census, 201 ...

Lawrence County, Missouri Lawrence County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri, in the area of the Ozarks. As of the 2010 census, the population was 38,634. Its county seat is Mount Vernon. The county was organized in 1845 and named for Jame ...

Description and history

It was built in 1892, and is a rectangular, two-story,

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 buff brick building. It measures 25 feet by 100 feet. It features pairs of round arched windows and a prominent round arched, rusticated stone corner entrance surround. The building was heavily damaged during a tornado in May 2003. (includes 7 photographs from 2004) It was 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 ...

on March 10, 2005.

References

Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Romanesque Revival architecture in Missouri Commercial buildings completed in 1892 Buildings and structures in Lawrence County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Missouri {{LawrenceCountyMO-NRHP-stub