198 S Belknap St 

This two-story building, prominently located on the corner of E. College St. and S. Belknap Ave., was constructed by  the city’s first sustained bank in 1889. J. Riely Gordon, who later designed the Erath County Courthouse, designed this  building in a Romanesque Revival style with a distinctive corner entry. Romanesque features include its rough stone  exterior walls, rough stone arched entry, arched storefront along S. Belknap Ave. filled with windows and cast-iron  pilasters, and finials at the roof. In 1897, a fire damaged this building, and when the bank repaired it, they added a  Neoclassical corner entrance portico with a Queen Anne-style turret above it. The portico features two pairs of blue  marble columns supporting an entablature that bears the inscription “First National Bank” and a pediment above. In  1921, Farmers National Bank of Stephenville absorbed First National Bank. A new owner recently rehabilitated this  significant bank building and individually listed it in the National Register.