It is eleven stories tall, with retail shops on the ground floor, together with the main lobby.

The building's original windows are a unique vertically-hinged steel casement that allows cleaning from inside.

[2] Adelbert E. Larson was born in Minnesota, arriving in Washington in 1884, where he worked in lumber camps.

A successful businessman, he bought real estate, involved himself in politics and promoted local business.

[1] Despite Larson's certainty the economic prospects of Yakima were bright and his goal of the building ushering in a new, cosmopolitan age for the city, unlike the comparably grand art deco Northern Life Tower in Seattle which has since been surrounded by larger skyscrapers, slower economic growth in Yakima County means the Larson Building continues to stand mostly alone in Yakima's skyline.