State Hotel - First State Bank
Sterling City, Sterling County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Directors of the First State Bank of Sterling City, the town's earliest financial institution, had this two-story brick commercial building constructed in 1910. It originally housed the State Hotel and the banking operation, which was acquired in 1926 by the First National Bank. Other offices that have been located here include those of doctors, the telephone company, post office and city hall. E. B. Butler also operated a drugstore here from 1926 to the 1960s. Businessmen associated with the site have included many of the prominent early leaders of the community.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Directors of the First State Bank, Sterling City's earliest financial institution, put up this two-story brick building in 1910 to house both the bank and the State Hotel. Over the decades its rooms served a rotating cast of the town's life: doctors' offices, the telephone company, post office, city hall, and E. B. Butler's long-running drugstore. Many of the community's prominent early leaders had business ties to the address.
Why it matters
A single downtown building like this often served as the commercial and civic heart of a small West Texas town as it grew into a settled community.
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