[1] The brick commercial building was constructed in 1880 in the Late Victorian Gothic Revival style.

The Jefferson street facade is livelier with short towers, pilasters between the widows, and Gothic arched hoods over tall, narrow windows.

[2] The building was built as an investment by local businessmen Thomas Hedge, Sr., E.H. Carpenter, John M. Gregg, and Wesley Bonar.

They hired Burlington architect Charles A. Dunham to design the building.

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