[3] Built in 1951, it was the largest of several Southern Union offices around the state designed by southwestern architect John Gaw Meem.

Meem was much better known for working in the Pueblo Revival style but did design a handful of other modernist buildings, such as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

[3] Meem completed the design for the Southern Union building in 1949, intending to "project the image of a progressive, public-spirited company".

The main showroom space is 17 feet (5.2 m) high, with a sweeping staircase to the upper level and expansive plate-glass windows on the south and west sides.

[7] Just two months later, it was announced that the building would house the Albuquerque offices of Rural Sourcing, Inc., an Atlanta-based tech company.