The hotel closed in 1921, and the building began to house Ohio governmental agencies.

The company, owned by Samuel Brubaker Hartman, grew to encompass large areas of the city.

[2] From 1906 to 1909, the building had served as the official residence of the governor of Ohio, Andrew L. Harris.

Until 1919, governors chose houses, hotels, or rented spaces to act as their residence in the state capital.

Nevertheless, some state agencies continued to use spaces in the buildings for further decades, the last moving out in the early 1970s.