Image from 1892-3 City Directory

.....Built in 1882, by Mr Kauffman and Mr. Julius Runge, it operated as a warehouse and offices for wholesale groceries. The 1892-3 Galveston City Directory lists the business as "Cotton Factors and Buyers, General Commission Merchants, Agents for North-German-Lloyd Steamship Line." In 1905 a lawyer, Maco Stewart, acquired the building to serve as an office building and headquarters for what soon became Stewart Title Company.