Located in the heart of Louisville’s Central Business District, The Starks Building is a fourteen-story building designed by Daniel Burnham, the architect known for designing the iconic New York City Flatiron Building. The building was commissioned by local businessman John Starks Rodes in the early 1900s and was designed in the Chicago School of Architecture Beaux-Arts detailing. The Starks building's beauty is immediately obvious from the existing exterior elevations that face 4th Street and Muhammad Ali Blvd. In addition to the cream-colored brick, the structure is accentuated with classical motifs, including acanthus leaves, lion heads, and urns. The building is constructed of steel-reinforced concrete with clay tile infill and brick and terracotta veneer. The building was built in stages starting in 1913. The original building configuration was a “U” shaped structure. In 1927, the architectural firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White designed an addition that created rectangular shaped building creating a central sunlight well. In 1953, the building was renovated once again and a parking garage was added. This parking garage, the first in the city to be constructed, added 700 spaces and was built on adjoining lots and fronts Third Street. In 1982, the central sunlight well was modified adding a glass skylight at the roof level. The second and third floors were converted into a mixed-use retail space that was connected to the various surrounding buildings with pedestrian bridges. In 1985 the building was added to the National Registry of Historic Places, largely in part to its architectural and engineering significance. Starks Redevelopment Company, LLC is dedicated to the adaptive reuse and preservation of the historic qualities that are unique to the era in which the Starks building was constructed.