This 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph shows an eight-story brick building standing at the intersection of two streets. The building has large windows with stone arches over them on the first floor and many smaller windows on the upper stories. Shorter buildings stand on both sides of the tall building, and there are other buildings on the other sides of both streets at the intersection. Trees are visible in the foreground. "First National Bank" is written on the photograph.
If there was a contest to build the tallest office building in downtown Lincoln, the First National Bank Building on the southeast corner of 10th and O Streets held the title for six years. Designed by Hyland & Greene of Chicago and built in 1910, the 8-story bank and office building was surpassed in 1916 by the Terminal Building directly west (right) across 10th Street, also designed by Paul Hyland of Chicago. Like many downtown buildings, the First National had shops in the basement, accessed by a staircase in the west sidewalk. The railing for those stairs is visible in the photograph. Now called the Lincoln Building, the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
