Built in 1891 by Edward T. Patten, the Foucart Building originally housed the Boston Store, a dry goods business managed by J.M. Brooks, who later built Brooks Opera House. By 1899, Geo. King's New York Racket Store, selling notions and general merchandise, had replaced it. National Biscuit Company leased the space for offices in 1911, and later occupants included a repair shop and, in 1920, E.A. Neher's Paige Automobile agency. In 1928, John E. Gaffney moved his furniture store there, returning the building to retail merchandising, and successive owners continued furniture sales until 1974, after which the building stood vacant. Designed by Joseph Foucart, who kept his office in the third-floor tower from 1893 to 1897, the native sandstone building reflected his distinctive style during some of his most productive years in the growing Territorial capital's business district, and it came to bear his name rather than that of its builder. Restored in 1980 to its original look, its facade restoration was the first completed in the Guthrie Historic District Restoration Program, sponsored by the Logan County Historical Society.