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     The First National Bank building, designed by Byron H. Pierce and built in 1888 as a two-story structure, was skillfully enlarged in 1903 by Charles Archibald Pearce with the addition of a third floor and 40 feet on the north side. The building has decorative terra-cotta window linters and trim and a bracketed, hammered copper cornice. In 1903 the structure was considered one of the finest buildings in the city. This edifice also housed other prominent businesses such as the Hancock sandstone Land Company, the Hancock Consolidated Mining Company and the Northern Michigan Building & Loan Association (now D&N Bank).
     With its comer entrance, the structure was specifically designed for its location as the entrance to "main street" Hancock.