The real estate firm of Miller and Miller built this sixty-unit apartment building in 1930. Designed by architect Julius Leiser in Art Deco style, it was named Annason by its owner, Armin Miller in honor of his mother, Anna Miller. In 1944, the Annason Apartments, Inc. was formed to purchase the building.

The Art Deco trend used in the building’s design had become popular after the 1925 International Exposition at Paris which was organized to display “arts decoratifs et industriels moderne.” Art Deco reflects the energy and speed associated with the rise of the machine age in its motifs of ziggurats, sunbursts, stepped triangles and stylized green sunbursts over each window on the north façade and the glazed tiles in the form of a ziggurat over the top story. The polished aluminum address numbers seem to flash across the front door.