Adolphus Busch developed this 17-story office building to serve as an office and retail supplement to his nearby Adolphus Hotel, which had been completed a year earlier. A significant example of terra cotta construction, the Busch building was one of the first Gothic-Revival style office towers in the nation.​ The A. Harris deaprtment store, founded in Dallas in 1891 and later named Sanger-Harris, was located here until 1965.

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