Built in the enframed window wall form, this 2-story brick commercial building showed motion pictures early as 1922 {Corsicana City Directory, 1922). Willis W. Grist Jr. managed die Palace, one of four such theaters in the city. By 1941 all four, including the Grand, the Ideal, the Palace, and the Rio, belonged to Texas Consolidated Theaters, an umbrella organization headquartered in this building. This rare example of the enframed window wall commercial building features modest classical detailing including a cast stone cornice (NR Historic District file, 1995).