The original building, located at
Broadway and Warren Street, belonged to the Emanuel Hoffman estate. For 25 years the ground floor of the Rogers Peet Building was occupied by tailors
Devlin & Company, who paid an annual rental of $45,000. The Rogers Peet Building had a double basement. The lower cellar housed the
Beach Pneumatic Transit railroad, a
pneumatic tube that ran across Broadway to Mall Street between 1870 and 1873. The tunnel was used as a shooting gallery after the abandonment of the railroad. At the time of its destruction the Rogers Peet Building was occupied by Rogers, Peet & Company, clothiers; Brown & Sheehan, lawyers; John Brien, contractor; L.T. Smith, architect; and the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Today, the site is occupied by part of the
Home Life Insurance Company Building. ==Current building==