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The Kern County Land Company, founded in 1890, commissioned the San Francisco architect Henry A. Schulze, to design its headquarters in 1893-1894. Schulze's two-story design featured red brick walls trimmed by pink sandstone with carved ornamentation. The building stood up on tall foundations composed of a rusticated granite base. Windows were arched, reflecting Italian Renaissance models. The front entry was trimmed with a prominent arch featuring Sullivanesque ornamentation, popular at the time, especially with architects who spent any time in the Midwest in the 1880s or 1890s. The Kern County Land Company operated in this building before outgrowing it during the building boom of the 1950s. It sold the property in 1959 which, in 2011, still functioned as an office building.

Tel: 661.326.3765 (2011).