The Brown-Evans Manufacturing Company, which made men's work clothing, was relocated from Sedalia, Missouri to Cedar Rapids when this building was completed in 1919.

It was built in the 4th Street Railroad Corridor, which had attracted various industrial enterprises in the years before and after World War I.

As the Great Depression wore on, their market declined and the plant closed three years later.

This building then housed an architectural office, a dance studio, and a warehouse operation.

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