Built in 1925 for Peninsular, an independent telephone operating company based in Tampa which later became part of General Telephone (GTE), it was designed by local architect J. H. Johnson in the Commercial or Chicago School of architecture.

After the phone company stopped having a local walk in customer service center, the street level windows were bricked in.

Today the building is owned by Manatee County and is used for storage.

It is included in a walking tour of downtown Bradenton and is included in the city's master list of historic buildings.

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