Furniture Company established in 1889, the building cost $100,000 and used thirty-five thousand barrels of cement along with 200,000 pounds of steel.

In late 1906, the Bellingham Bay Improvement Company hired Seattle architect James C. Teague (later designer of the nearby Exchange [YMCA] and Dahlquist buildings) to draw preliminary plans for a five-story building that would fill their triangular block bound by Champion, Prospect and Bay Streets in downtown Bellingham, a very prime location.

In the original plans, the building would house possibly a bank or other small stores with office space and lodge rooms above but because of litigation involving the property and the construction of a temporary skating rink on the site, it was speculated that the building would not be built very soon.

Soon after the purchase, they dropped Teague's design in favor of one drawn by local architect Frank C. Burns.

Despite the buildings' size, it would actually only be 4,000 square feet (370 m2) larger than the company's previous quarters at Holly and Bay Streets.

The rebuilding took three years and as a precaution to future fire, an automatic sprinkler system with a rooftop tank was installed, the first of its kind in Bellingham.

It was unoccupied and owned by the City of Bellingham when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 1983.