The first commercial tenant of this building was the Ashby and Dill Grocery. By the twenties the ground floor had changed hands, and a variety of businesses located here for the next sixty years. Originally the second-floor residential space was occupied by Mrs. Sally E. Smith’s Boarding House, and during the 1920s by a boarding house run by Mrs. L. C. Brown. The Alps Hotel located here in the late 1930s. The two-story ochre brick building features a cast-stone cornice and window casings. Carefully restored in 1983, the building is part of the Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District; it is potentially eligible for individual listing on the National Register.
