The building was built around 1910. The Karnofsky family lived upstairs and owned a secondhand store and later a
tailor shop on the first floor. Model Tailors moved into the building after the Karnofskys moved out. The building sat abandoned for years, while several plans to restore the building and surrounding neighborhood were unsuccessful. On October 16, 2002, the building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. As of 2019, it was slated to be restored, possibly for conversion into a nightclub. However, it collapsed on August 29, 2021, when
Hurricane Ida swept through the city as a category 4 storm. == See also ==