Denver's largest wholesale firm erected this warehouse of 253,000 square feet, designed by Aaron Gove and Thomas F. Walsh, the architects of many warehouses surrounding their best-known work, the 1912 portion of Union Station. The brick exterior is distinguished by horizontal banding on the first story, recessed upper-story windows, and a bracketed metal cornice. A grand second story entrance from the 16th Street Viaduct (demolished in 1993) led to oak-finished offices on the second floor. Chester S. Morey presided over a wholesale food empire of 500 employees and eighteen branches in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Morey's building was remodeled in the early 1990s as a branch bookstore, coffee bar, offices, and warehouse of The Tattered Cover, founded in 1974 by Joyce Meskis as a tiny bookshop. The Tattered Cover has grown into a giant with some 500,000 titles in stock, earning praise from The New York Times as “the best general bookstore in the U.S.”