The building housed sales showrooms and offices, automobile repair and service, and storage for parts, accessories, and finished vehicles.

It was listed on the National Register as a commemoration of the extraordinary growth of the auto industry during the early 20th century.

[2] The building resembles the work of Louis Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie and other skyscraper pioneers.

He moved to Minneapolis at age 18 to join his uncle, John Wesley Pence, who had various business interests in the area.

[5] [6] [7] in 1918 Harry Pence Won the Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company better known as The Dan Patch Electric Lines after the death of its previous owner Marion Willis Savage he soon reorganized it into the Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway.