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The Haley-Walker-Ginza Building is a Historic Landmark in Champaign, Illinois. It is located at the southwest corner of University Avenue and 4th Street. The exact date of construction is not known but the building is estimated to be built in 1901. The building is three stories tall and of Richardsonian Romanesque style architecture. It was originally constructed as a tuberculosis sanitarium by Doctor Henry A. Haley of Chicago, IL with three stories and 29 patient rooms. The sanitarium did not last long but briefly re-entered service in healthcare during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. The building has also housed a pennant factory, fruit stand, bakery, candy store, lunch room, and tire vulcanizing shop. The building then transitioned to a rooming house and not long after that the Hotel Walker, followed by the Ford Hotel until 1969, when building owner Norman Ryckman turned the business into Ginza Asian Grocery Store, which was open until 1987. Norman Ryckman's son Bruce Ryckman then transitioned the store into Ginza Flower Shop which remained open until 2008. In 2011, local property firm The Electrum Group purchased the building and renovated it into nine apartment units and one commercial space which is currently occupied by Spiros Law.