{"nrhp_refnum":"07001408","name":"Bank of Tryon Building","other_names":["Tryon Daily Bulletin Building","Hester Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"16 N. Trade St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tryon","county":"Polk County","state":"NC","lat":35.20941952000004,"lon":-82.23919121399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick and stone commercial building at 16 North Trade Street (originally 106) in Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina, built in the winter of 1907-1908 for the Bank of Tryon, the first bank in the county.","why_significant":"The building is tied to the Bank of Tryon, the first bank in Polk County, and to the Tryon Daily Bulletin, a daily newspaper billed as the world's smallest, which has occupied it since 1935. It is also a good, largely intact example of early Romanesque Revival-inspired commercial architecture in Tryon. It retains more historic integrity than most commercial buildings along Trade Street.","narrative":"Built in the winter of 1907-1908 on Trade Street in Tryon, North Carolina, this two-story brick building was erected for the Bank of Tryon, the first bank established in Polk County. Its Romanesque Revival-inspired front has granite quoins, Palladian-type second-story windows, and a stepped parapet on corbelled yellow-brick brackets. Inside, the pressed-tin ceiling, concrete vault and Mosler safe survive. The bank merged with another institution in 1927 and sold the building, which was then leased to various businesses. In 1935 the Tryon Daily Bulletin, founded by Seth M. Vining in 1928 and known as the world's smallest daily newspaper, moved in, and Vining bought the property in 1959. The building was listed for its link to the county's first bank and the newspaper, and for its architecture. It is one of few commercial buildings on Trade Street to keep a high degree of historic integrity. Its period of significance runs from 1908 to 1957.","period_of_significance":"1908-1957","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in commercial use as offices and the printing operations of the Tryon Daily Bulletin; the whole building is now occupied by the newspaper operation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.163895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7218/47721846/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/07001408.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001408/cfd42abc68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001408/cfd42abc68-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bigskybill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Tryon.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bigskybill</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_Tryon.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721846","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Tryon_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19865627"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/polk-county/bank-of-tryon-building-07001408/"}