A six-story brick building stands on a corner of two streets in this 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph. The building has windows on each floor and a concrete dock on the front and side. A large sign near the top of the building reads "Tilton Furniture Co." and a smaller sign on the first floor says the same thing. There is also a sign on the first floor that reads "National Biscuit Company". Other brick buildings can be seen in the background. "Tilton Furniture Co." is written on the photograph.
J. B. Miller designed the lower three floors of this warehouse in 1919, for a variety of tenants, at the southwest corner of 8th and R Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska. Davis and Wilson were architects for the top three floors, added in 1927 for the Tilton Furniture Co. Mark Tilton helped start the Tilton-Phelps Wholesale Furniture Company in 1905 and later took over the company. Both the 1919 and 1927 construction campaigns used a reinforced concrete frame, but the earlier, lower floors expressed the frame as a visible part of the design, while the upper floors cloaked the structure in brick. Note the smaller windows of the upper floors, which were enlarged to match the lower windows when Western Electric used the warehouse as a factory during World War II. The six-story warehouse exists today (2012) as the Hardy Building.
