[2] Wortman resigned in 1923 and Clyde W. Stewart, a salesman with the Black Hills Wholesale Grocery, took over his role.
[6] Even after the fruit company disbanded—the date of which is unknown due to lack of records, but is estimated to be 1935—the building itself was still used as a warehouse for several decades.
[2] On December 9, 1993, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its importance to the economic history of Rapid City, and for its well-preserved commercial architecture.
[1] A $5,800 grant allocated by the South Dakota State Historical Society from gambling profits in Deadwood funded minor restoration works in 1997.
Two brick columns on the west face divide that side into three bays, which were originally used as docking areas and now separate the businesses that occupy the building.
Brickwork is also present inside, in the form of brick cornices along the western wall and crowning a central elevator shaft.