Completed in 1906, this utilitarian three-story brick structure is located in the city's original railroad and industrial corridor south of the central business district.

[2] It replaced a recently built building on the same site by the Hawthorne Glove and Novelty Company that had been destroyed in a fire.

The back of the building opened upon the rail sidings of a branch line of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway, later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific.

In the intervening years a variety of businesses occupied the building until the 1980s when it was vacant for a period of time.

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