The Bellingham Bay Furniture Company, a pioneering furniture manufacturing company founded in 1889, erected this flat-iron-shaped building to replace a previous factory and showroom. For some time, a previous showroom existed in the Bellingham Hotel. The company utilized this reinforced concrete building until 1978. After the the furniture company left the building, it lay dormant until 1990, when renovation again occurred, turning it into office space.

Between 1908-1926, this building remained the city's tallest.

Although precautions were made to fireproof the building, a blaze gutted the Bellingham Bay Furniture Company Building in 1924. A water tank was added to the roof to supply a sprinkler system retrofitted into the interior. This restoration took about three years to complete.