MERBEIN'S historic old State Savings Bank building has been bought by a local man who wants to keep the two-storey structure as a town landmark.

The bank building, which was operating as a Commonwealth Bank branch before it closed in 2020, sold at auction for $280,000 on Friday.

Selling agent Ben Ridley, of Collie & Tierney First National, said the buyer had expressed a sentimental attachme...