It was made of porcelain enamel steel, with stained glass windows, styled like the Chicago Water Tower.

[3] The restaurant, a five-stool lunch operation, first opened in 1929, with a white enamel brick design with a tower and battlement, resembling a castle.

[4] In March 1986, the Columbus Historic Resources Commission approved White Castle's plan to dismantle the building.

Despite the approval, White Castle still supported a bid by the Columbus Landmarks Foundation to move and preserve the building, potentially to a museum in Orient, Ohio.

[6] It was moved to the private property owned by Willi Green in Orient, Ohio,[7] and was replaced with a new porcelain-enamel restaurant.

[12][better source needed] Around 2016–2018, the original White Castle site was proposed to have a three-story mixed-use building built there.