In 1963, Huntington Trust President A. Grant Beckett announced that the firm would
erect a modern bank building on the northwest corner of 4th Avenue and 11th Street.

To do so, it purchased the former State Theater and the Loop Building. The bank bought the properties
from Jack S. Hyman, representing the Hyman Family Trust, owner of the State Theater, and T.J.S. Caldwell,
vice president of the First Huntington National Bank, acting for the Rufus Switzer Estate, which owned the Loop Building.

Robert L. Brown was the architect and C.H. Jimison & Sons the general contractor for the two-story
banking structure, which featured a striking "curtain-wall construction" of precast concrete slabs.

Mayor J.B. Meek cut the ribbon opening the new building on Aug. 16, 1965 - after the Huntington
Police Department supervised the moving of $500,000 in cash from the bank's old building.

In 1972, President William G. Powers announced the bank had purchased the property immediately
west of its building and would demolish it to make way for a $350,000 addition.

In 1984, Huntington Trust merged with the much-larger First Huntington National Bank and the
4th Avenue building was placed up for sale. It sat empty for more than three years before it
was acquired by Marshall University. Since 1991, the building has been home to the
 Robert C, Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI).