The Bank of Hampton, built in 1892, was the first bank organized in Hampton and an important part of the rapid growth and development of the county seat from the 1890s to the mid-1920s. Designed by Vincent Joseph Fontaine, a French-born architect who moved to S.C. after the Civil War, the two-story building, with its raised brickwork, segmental arches, and stepped parapet, is a good example of Italianate influence in commercial buildings of the period. For more than thirty years, it housed the Bank of Hampton on the first floor and law offices on the second floor. After the bank closed in 1926, the second floor continued to house law offices into the 1960s. The building was donated to the Town of Hampton in 1987, a town museum opened there in 1989, and it is now home to the Hampton Museum and Visitors' Center; it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.