In October 1906, a magnificent, Italian-Renaissance-style building was erected on the corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and 10th St. and opened as the First National Bank. The four-story, stone-and-brick structure cost $125,000. The architect was the Beezer Brothers firm, of Pittsburgh. The interior was designed by W. F. Wise, of Tyrone. 
    Besides the bank, the building housed a drug store and a hardware store. The second and third floors comprised six family apartments with front and rear entrances. On the fourth floor were lodge rooms and a large assembly room with a raised stage and a kitchen. 
    In 1932, the bank merged with the Blair County National Bank & Trust Company. The building then was owned by several generations of the Jones Family before being purchased by Sal Scavone in 1992. Mr. Scavone did the restoration work, and his daughter did the interior design to create the LaVilla Restaurant, which opened on April 29, 1993. The top floors were left unoccupied. 
    In 2002, the condemned structure was demolished except for the first floor, which since has been renovated for the new home of the Tyrone-Snyder Public Library. In March 2004, the library was moved from its location at 1019 Logan Ave. 
    Organized in August 1965, the library was housed for two years in the Clyde Black automobile showroom, at the corner of Logan Ave. and 10th St. It then occupied a two-story house at 1055 Logan Ave. from 1967 to 1979, when it moved to its Logan Avenue site. 
    The first library in Tyrone was in the early 1900s on the second floor of the YMCA. It closed when the Pennsylvania Railroad withdrew its support of the YMCA. 
    Prior to the First National Bank Building, the Study Brothers Mercantile Business operated in a building on this site starting in 1853. The building was razed for the First National Bank. 
    And before that, on December 25, 1850, Jacob Burley moved his family into a 1½-story frame house on this corner location. It was the first dwelling located within the limits of the original Borough of Tyrone.