[2] Between 1999 and 2004, restoration of the building created residential loft apartments in upper floors, with commercial retail at ground level.

One of the early ground level tenants was City Grocers, a specialty market that also dealt in necessities for downtown condo and loft dwellers, which assumed the place of the only grocery store in downtown St. Louis from its opening in 2004 until the opening of a new format of Schnucks supermarket at Olive and 9th streets in 2009.

[1] The building originally was built with six stories, while a seventh was added in the same style as the lower levels in 1919 to meet rising demands for space.

[1] Most downtown Romanesque Revival buildings were demolished during the 20th century, with some notable exceptions (such as the Cupples Station warehouse complex).

It also is one of only a handful of buildings in St. Louis designed by either Henry Hobson Richardson or his successor firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.