According to its nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, it is notable as "a distinctive, virtually unaltered example of the Commercial Style".

And it is an "excellent" example of "the three-part base-shaft-capital approach (similar to a classical column) to tall building design.

It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

[1] In 2011 it was included as a contributing property in the Waterloo East Commercial Historic District.

[3] This article about a property in Black Hawk County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.