One of the largest business blocks constructed during the boom years before the Silver Crash of 1893, the street walls of the two-story brick building are faced with heavy rusticated sandstone.  An oblique corner entry marks the first floor retail space that originally housed the First National Bank of Aspen.  The second floor contained office spaces and a lodge meeting hall for the Patriotic Order Sons of America.  From the early 1920s into the 1960s, much of the first floor retail space was occupied by a variety of automobile related enterprises initiated by M.H. Brand.