The building was built in 1910 out of cast concrete blocks that were manufactured at the site, at a time that the town "was being promoted as a seaside resort".

The building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 14, 2009.

[3] The building includes columns that have "entasis, bulbous bases and hypotrachelia, and blocky square-profile capitals.

"[2]: 6 It is located at the corner of 4th and Commerce Streets, only a block away from the Tres Palacios Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.

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