The historic brick building, constructed in 1908 and completed in 1910, was designed as an entertainment venue in a 16th century Italian palazzo style. At street level was the first specifically designed and functioning Picture Theater in the nation, seating about 250 people, with the upper level designed to embrace a ballroom. As movie theaters grew larger and ballroom dancing became less popular over the decades, the building became vacant around the mid-20th century. From the very beginning, the design approach for our new office space was to restore the original ballroom's fin-DE-siacle style of charm, elegance and simplicity. Fortunately ears of vacancy, lack of use and a period of undesirable location never made this building or space a victim of renovation. The original suspended light fixtures, cast-iron balustrade at the balcony, and exposed wood plank roof structure were still in place and undamaged. The color scheme was based on the original warm, golden painted colors found behind the old radiators and the amber color of the light fixture lenses.