This building was the headquarters of his firm Ellsworth and Jones, who sold land throughout Iowa and other states in the Midwest.

While Iowa Falls was their headquarters, they also had offices in Chicago, Boston, and Crookston, Minnesota.

It features Ionic and Doric columns, egg-and-dart motif on the lower level columns, round arches, acanthus leaf keystones, foliated decorative elements, a dentils on the cornice.

It was included as a contributing property in the Washington Avenue Commercial Historic District in 2012.

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