Much of the building’s original design and architecturally significant details remain today, although there have been multiple renovations since the 1950s, including the removal of a 150-foot high brick smokestack. The building is an example of a Renaissance or Classical Revival design, most closely related to a high-Italian style. From about 1900 to 1930, architects commonly used this style when designing landmark buildings to show off their skills. Key to this style is a balanced and symmetrical façade, with the north and south and east and west sides being mirror images of each other. The Romanesque arched windows with their brick arch pediments and decorative lintels and sills, here made out of cement, are common to this style. Especially common are windows in groups of three, or triptych mode, like those on the east and west sides, although it is more common to find arched windows on the first floor with this style. Similar decorative elements, like cement lintels and sills are present around the windows and doors on the first level. The main door was on the south face and, to balance it, there was a freight door on the north side. It is the flat roof surrounded by a plain parapet wall that makes the building high-style.
Although the style most often has smooth slate or stone walls, this building’s smooth brick walls are done in an American common style of five rows of stretchers, the long side, to each row of headers, the short side. Ornamental pilasters, a very common element of the classical revival style, are also built with brick. These pilasters run almost the entire height of the building, with one at each corner of the building, two separating the mid point of the north and south facades where the interior changed from two to three floors, and three evenly spaced ones on the east and west facades.
Although the style most often has smooth slate or stone walls, this building’s smooth brick walls are done in an American common style of five rows of stretchers, the long side, to each row of headers, the short side. Ornamental pilasters, a very common element of the classical revival style, are also built with brick. These pilasters run almost the entire height of the building, with one at each corner of the building, two separating the mid point of the north and south facades where the interior changed from two to three floors, and three evenly spaced ones on the east and west facades.