St. Joseph's Commerce and Banking Historic District

St. Joseph's Commerce and Banking Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Old First National Bank
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Location	Roughly bounded by 3rd, 91t, Francis, and Edmonds St., St. Joseph, Missouri
Coordinates	39°45′59″N 94°51′09″W / 39.76639°N 94.85250°W / 39.76639; -94.85250Coordinates: 39°45′59″N 94°51′09″W / 39.76639°N 94.85250°W / 39.76639; -94.85250
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Architect	Eckel, E.J.; et.al.
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Italianate, et.al.
NRHP reference No.	01000709[1]
Added to NRHP	July 5, 2001

St. Joseph's Commerce and Banking Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings in the central business district of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1859 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Streamline Moderne style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed German-American Bank Building, Corby-Forsee Building, Missouri Theater and Missouri Theater Building, and Missouri Valley Trust Company Historic District. Other notable buildings include the Ballinger Building (1889), Commerce Building (1889, 1941), First National Bank of St. Joseph (1902, 1963), Lehman's, Plymouth Building (1908), and the United Building (1917-1918) by the architecture firm of Eckel & Aldrich.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

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