First National Bank and Trust Building

Ohio, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The First National Bank and Trust Building is a twelve-story limestone office building on Public Square in downtown Lima, Ohio, completed in 1926 by the Chicago architectural firm Weary & Alford Company. Clad in Indiana limestone and designed in the Chicago School style, the structure features distinctive arch windows at the top of each column, with connected spandrels linking them together. Built during Lima's prosperous early twentieth century, when railroads and the oil industry fueled urban development, the building housed the First National Bank and Trust Company's offices from 1926 until 1974, when the bank became part of Huntington Bank. The company itself had been founded as Lima Trust Company in 1903 and occupied earlier premises before relocating to this new structure. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of the Lima Multiple Resource Area, the building remains one of the city's most significant architectural landmarks and notably serves as a nesting site for peregrine falcons within the Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project.