It is an important work in the career of Portland architect Roscoe Hemenway,[2] who generally focused on single-family residential designs.

[3] In it, Hemenway employed the Colonial Revival style to draw out an air of respectability and tradition, in an effort to make apartment living more appealing to a middle-class clientele.

Built in 1944 for developer Douglas W. Lowell, the complex was aimed at single women working in war industries.

[2] The building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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