[1] In 2019 the building was included as a contributing property in the East Des Moines Commercial Historic District.

[2] Horace E. Teachout, for whom the building was named, was a developer who helped plan the East Village.

[3] He started planning for what would be the tallest building on the east side of Des Moines in 1911, and it would be completed a year later.

The prominent Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird and Rawson designed the building in the Early Commercial style.

[3] A renovation of the building was begun in the 1970s, but was not completed because of the completion of the MacVicar freeway, Interstate 235, allowed people to bypass the area for other parts of the city and suburbs and made this section of Des Moines less desirable.