 In July 2020, the City of Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission determined that the building's nomination to be a City of Pittsburgh Historic Landmark was viable.The Jones and Laughlin building was constructed in 1907 as the headquarters of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, which was then the second largest steel producer in the country (after Andrew Carnegie’s U.S. Steel).The company was founded by B.F. Jones in Pittsburgh in 1852 and built many blast furnaces and mills in the area surrounding the Monongahela River.