Dr. Warren Quist relocated to San Luis Obispo after serving as an army dentist during the Korean War and working at Camp Roberts. He commissioned John Ross, an accomplished local architect and lecturer at Cal Poly, to design a three-suite medical building on what was then the outskirts of town. The mid-century modern office building was exceptional because the treatment rooms had their own private garden view, which acted as a privacy fence between the parking lot and the office. The small garden created a naturally calming ambiance for patients to gaze out of the floor-to-ceiling windows during their dental visit.