Built in 1906 and designed by the architects Morgan & Walls,[2] the Bumiller Building was constructed of reinforced concrete in Renaissance Revival style.

In 1906, the Bumiller Building was the home of a department store, the Bon Marché, owned by the Le Sage Brothers.

The next month the building became a branch of The Hub, a large clothier that started up in 1896 whose main store was at 157 N. Spring Street.

During Prohibition in 1921, firemen were called to the building to put out a blaze caused by a whiskey still, under which a gas fire had been lit.

[17] Carroll White Blake was a successful real estate investor and motion picture exhibitor.

Born in Bowdoinham, Maine, April 12, 1885, he graduated from the Industrial College of the University of Nebraska (1908),[18] arrived in Los Angeles in 1909 and served in World War I.

[20][21][22] Born in Arkansas, Lillian Evelyn Schramm (née Pugh, 1898–1952) was divorced from Dr. Alfred J. Schramm, Executive Secretary of the American College of Osteopathic Physicians, and the only College official who refused to take advantage of the 1962 California legislation allowing an osteopath to convert his degree to an MD.

[26] Schramm operated a beauty salon at the time of her own death, and left most of her million dollar estate for cancer research.

[27] The California State Board of Cosmetology was located on the second floor of the Bumiller Building, and gave their certifying exams there.