Constructed by investors W. G. Swenson, George Paxton, and H. O. Wooten, this eight-story office building was designed by Castle concurrently with the Alexander Building (SB15), but it displays a distinctly different approach. While still Sullivanesque in its ordering of base, shaft, and cap, the elements reveal the influence of Beaux-Arts classicism in the tall ground floor clad in gray limestone with arched openings and the projecting quoins. The remaining seven floors are treated as vertical piers of red brick. The ornamented terra-cotta cornice has a band of anthemions profiled against the sky.
Across the street at number 290 is Castle’s W. G. Waldrop and Company building (c. 1929), where he again used full-height piers to organize the facades, but here in an early Moderne manner.