The building initially housed the Young & McCombs Department Store, of which Best served as a financier.

[2] After Young & McCombs the building housed the Brady-Waxenberg Department Store followed by Montgomery Ward.

In 1992 New York artist Richard Haas painted the north elevation of the building with a 60-foot (18 m) tall trompe-l'œil memorial sculpture of local Sauk warrior Black Hawk.

[1] It was included as a contributing property in the Downtown Rock Island Historic District in 2020.

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