The Commercial Finance Company Building, built in 1947/1948, is a contributing building to the Downtown North Historic District which was listed in 2002. The Downtown Historic District is an area of commercial buildings located just north of Winston-Salem’s central business district. Rather than being part of the city’s flashier center of commerce, finance, government, and entertainment that was focused on West 4th Street, the area encompassed by the district served, historically, as more of a workingman’s downtown where farmers came to sell their tobacco and other products, and stayed to purchase goods that best addressed their needs.