Description:
A photograph of the Old National Bank building at 29-31 West Main St. (Michigan Avenue) in 1928. The bank had moved to this address from its former location at 1 E. Main on "bank corners" in 1915. Old National Bank is a descendant of the private bank founded by Loyal C. Kellogg in 1851. Kellogg's bank became the city's first federal chartered bank in 1865 as First National Bank. It went through numerous transitions and in 1905 became Old National Bank. In 1929, Old National merged with Merchants Savings Bank to become Old-Merchants National Bank. The bank closed its doors on June 13, 1933, at the height of the Depression, and in 1934 reorganized as Security National Bank.