[1] It is, along with the former Columbus Railway, Power & Light office, one of the two most important historic structures in Milo-Grogan.

The current owners, Rick Mann and Russell Snider, purchased the building in 1983 and opened Milo Arts in 1988.

[4] In 2012, a Columbus Dispatch investigation found that the building's tenants were living in hazardous conditions.

Mann had not fixed code violations dating to 2001, and the city had failed to keep track of the issues.

Mann has struggled to make repairs due to difficult finances, and tenants are often willing to live there despite its issues.