Citizen's Bank Building - New Franklin, MO - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

County of building: Howard County
Location of building: 105 E. Broadway, 3rd bldg. E. of S. Missouri St. (MO-5), south side, New Franklin
Built: 1894
Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival
Original Occupant: Citizen's Bank
Current Occupant: Vacant downstairs - apartment 2nd floor

"15. 105 E. Broadway, Citizen’s Bank (1897), 1894.
A two-story two-part commercial block with brick walls and a flat roof. This is one of the most intact and highly styled buildings in the district. It has elements of the Romanesque Revival style, including large round arched openings. The ground floor features a large center arched opening, with a doorway on the west side of the façade and a smaller display window on the east. (The smaller display window could have been a door when new.) The doorway has an early or original door and framing, and the storefront of the center bay is early or original. The framing and arched transom of the east bay is also early; the display window and bulkhead may be a later addition. The upper façade is highly intact. A date stone in the center of the second floor reads 1894; it is the only date stone in the district. The 1/1 windows on the second floor are also early or original, with modern storm windows. The upper façade features textured bricks and ornamental terra cotta tiles. A large electric sign has been mounted to the wall above the center arch; it is blank. [c]" ~ NRHP Nomination Form [link below]

"This is one of two oldest intact buildings on the south side of the street. Photo 2 shows what appears to be this and 107 as the only two brick fronts on this side of the street.
1894--Building constructed (per date stone).
1897--Atlas shows this bank here; it is also listed in the 1899 Gazetteer.
1908, July 18--Citizen’s Bank is here.(Owen Binder)
1917--Sanborn map states that there is a bank on the 1st floor. The 2nd floor is vacant.
1923, Dec. 14--Citizen’s Bank and the Bank of New Franklin (101 W. Broadway) were consolidated, and the bank here closed. L. A. Kingsbury, who was probably in charge of Citizen’s Bank, retired from the banking business. (Owen Binder.)
1929, ca.--The bank sign is gone. “Dr. C. H. Reinke Osteop(?) and Physician” is on the sign out front." ~ District Property Information Form