Called the Deshler-Wallick Hotel by the time the LeVeque Tower opened, its then-1,000 rooms were accessible by a "venetian bridge" linking the two buildings on the second floor.

New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, who attended the opening, tried and nearly succeeded in having a ceremonial sip of wine in each of the 600 hotel rooms.

The hotel would later host President Harry S. Truman in 1946 during a meeting of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ.

Cole eliminated the 600 rooms located inside LeVeque Tower and invested $2 million to remodel the hotel.

[2]: 117  The building was sold a final time to Fred Beasley in 1966 and renamed the Beasley-Deshler before being closed in 1968 and demolished by S.G. Loewendick & Sons in 1969.