Like several other buildings constructed in Downtown in the latter half of the 1920's  (see D-14, D-77, and D-88), this five-story structure pays a distant homage to the Prairie School of architecture, which had largely died out a decade before.  The internal construction of the building is openly described by the uninterrupted vertical piers, which in turn set up an interplay with the strong horizontal lines of the bands of windows and white masonry detail.  Lozenge designs similar to those on Klutho's original Claude Nolan Building  (D-87) punctuate the space between the windows.  The piers have simple triangular insets instead of capitals, and they increase in height toward the central parapet.