The First State Bank of Manlius was organized on March 21, 1902, by Max P. Seibel with an initial capital of $25,000, and it officially opened on June 14, 1902. Its original location was on the west side of Main Street in Manlius, Illinois. The first officers were William C. Dale, president; Max P. Seibel, cashier; P.J. Anderson, director; Rufus A. Lathrop, director; and W.S. Rudiger, director. In 1914, architect Parker Noble Berry, who had grown up in Princeton, Illinois, was commissioned to design a new modern facility at 122 East Maple Avenue in Manlius. Berry was known as an esteemed architect of the Prairie School style and had studied under Louis H. Sullivan of Chicago, becoming his chief draftsman from 1909 to 1917. Berry's father, John W. Berry, was the contractor who built the building. Parker Noble Berry died in Princeton on December 16, 1918, at the age of 30 of pneumonia. The bank failed and closed during the Great Depression in March 1933. On May 12, 1975, Congressman Tom Railsback announced that the building had been entered into the National Register of Historic Places. On April 9, 2002, the Manlius Historical Society purchased the building, which had been used for offices and storage, and restored it to its original state for use as a museum. Today, the First State Bank of Manlius is the only unaltered Berry-designed commercial building still standing.