First National Bank Building, Classical Revival bank building in downtown Pensacola, Florida, US

The First National Bank Building is a two-story Classical Revival structure at 213 South Palafox Street in Pensacola, Florida. Built from 1906 to 1908 by Charlie Hunter to designs by the New York firm Mowbray and Uffinger, it has rows of Ionic white marble columns and a neo-Grecian facade.

Architects Mowbray and Uffinger completed this structure in 1908 during Florida's banking expansion in the early 1900s. The building represents how the region grew economically as more financial institutions established themselves.

The building carries the name of Matt Langley Bell III, the Escambia County Tax Collector who died in office on October 15, 2008; the county renamed it in his memory. His office's main branch now occupies the former banking hall, so visitors to 213 South Palafox Street come for tax and tag business rather than banking.

The building sits at 213 Palafox Street in downtown Pensacola within easy walking distance of other civic sites. It features accessible entrances and interior spaces suited for public use and business visits.

The bank's 1914 collapse came from Pensacola's timber trade: Liverpool firm Crow, Rudolf & Company, which handled much of the city's timber exports and held nearly half a million dollars of the bank's money, announced on February 1, 1914 that it could not meet its debts. A federal receiver, R. W. Goodhart, was sent to audit the bank, and despite more than $400,000 on-site in its vault, First National was ordered to close.