Architectural features include a recessed storefront facing a colonnade of fluted wood columns, a double-leaf front door, and plate-glass display windows.

Constructed by George Foreman for druggist Thomas Graham, the building preserves a form of commercial architecture typical of the city's neighborhood business districts around 1900.

[4] Graham, who operated a drugstore in the building for many years, was born in Ontario, Canada, and moved to Portland in 1891.

At that time, the Mount Tabor neighborhood, where the building is located, was slowly changing from rural to residential.

Minor commercial hubs in the vicinity generally featured small wooden buildings with recessed storefronts facing streetcar lines.