The building has a simple stone design reflective of a transitional period between rustic and well-crafted stone buildings.

A. Bass built the structure as a lodging house; it later served as offices for a telephone company and as a fraternal lodge.

A 1912 fire gutted the building's interior, but Bass rebuilt it the following year.

[2] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1982.

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