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This four-story, mixed-use apartment and retail building occupied a large parcel on one of Longview's main streets. Longview was a company town, built to house 4,000 workers at the nearby Long-Bell Lumber Company plant. Originally, 36 studio apartments were to house single workers on the building's upper three floors. This block, with a movie palace set at a prominent corner, was to have been razed in Spring 1980, but Mount Saint Helens's eruption on 05/18/1980 drew away the demolition crew on site which was required elsewhere. The building's owners, Sterling Theaters of Seattle, WA, wanted to erect a more profitable multi-screen facility on the property. The City of Longview traded another of its properties with Sterling in 1983 for the Columbia Building; on this new site, Sterling built its new four-plex, the Triangle Mall Cinema. An historic building inventory was done on the property in 1985, and plans to restore the building developed thereafter.

The city's Longview Housing Authority began renovating the upper floors into 35, one-bedroom apartments for low-income and senior citizens in the early 1990s. These residences, known as the Sylvester Apartments, opened in 1994.

PCAD id: 15330