Throughout the early twentieth century, Huff Bremner was advertised as a desirable residential neighborhood and it was home to a number of Edmonton families.

In 1955, developer Eugene Pechet made a proposal to the City of Edmonton to open the Yale Hotel at the corner of 142 street and 111 avenue, which resulted in numerous protests from residents of adjacent neighborhoods.

Residents were concerned that the hotel bar would lead to public intoxication in the nearby Coronation Park and pose a risk to students at Ross Sheppard High School.

[25] Huff Bremner Estate is home to the historic Ford Parts and Accessories Depot, a building that is a municipally-designated heritage site on the basis of its architecture.

In 1956, Canadian architect Kelvin Crawford Stanley designed the building, which is located at the northeast corner of 111 avenue and 149 street.

[26][27][28] The historic Ford Parts and Accessories Depot has been noted for "its Early Modern adaptation of the International Style as applied to an industrial building, typified by the use of low horizontal appearance, flat roofs, office in front of a taller warehouse configuration, horizontal strip windows from clear anodized aluminum with continuous painted steel sunshades, white Italian travertine stone features such as perimeter façade trims and entrance feature walls, recessed entry with broad overhang, red brick construction with multi-hued brick under the windows and landscaped park-like setting along 111 avenue.