 A nine-story office block and retail shops were part of the complex.For a number of years during the 1910s, Billy Clune presented silent films in the auditorium, then called Clune's Auditorium or sometimes Clune's Theatre Beautiful.The landmark pro-Ku Klux Klan film, "Birth of a Nation", had its world premiere at Clune's Auditorium on its way to becoming a massive success.