The National Bank of Geneva was established at 528 South Main Street in 1817 and moved to Park Place (Bank Alley) in 1821 before moving again in 1831 to the current Woman’s Club building on Main Street at the head of Seneca Street. The Geneva National Bank moved to the corner of Seneca and Exchange in 1862. The bank published a book in 1917 to celebrate their 100th anniversary and can be found in the archive research library.

Prior to the Civil War, the Bank of Geneva was the only successful bank in the village and Geneva remained a one-institution business until the National Banking Act, passed to fund the Civil War, allowed the federal government to regulate banking and the money supply. Under this act, the Bank of Geneva was re-formed as the Geneva National Bank in 1865. The organization settled on the name of the National Bank of Geneva in 1923. The bank continued in Geneva for decades before becoming Five Star Bank in 2005.