[1] The building site was the former location of the home of railroad magnate Colonel Edmund William Cole,[5] with his home being the last 19th-century mansion on Church Street.

A few years later (in either 1916 or 1921), it had three more stories added, increasing its size to 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2).

The exterior is sheathed with glazed polychrome terra cotta.

[6][7] In the 1940s and 1950s, the building consisted of office space for many of the city's doctors and dentists.

This article about a property in Davidson County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.