The facade of this building is one of Jacksonville's great works of art and is a masterpiece of Klutho's Prairie-style design.  The windows, doors, and attic vents feature lively ornamentation with motifs of interlocking circles, rectangles, and diamonds.  The building's skillful interplay of horizontal and vertical lines, as well as the rhythm of masses and voids, is accentuated by this ornamental detail.  A dramatic prow roof gives a dynamic soaring appearance to the upper part of the composition.  At the base of the building, the Prairie-style planters are woven into the overall geometry, as an example of the many subtleties of the design.  The gold-leaf windows with diamond shapes are patterned after some of the earlier designs of Frank Lloyd Wright.  Klutho's own residence (SP-42) was originally located beside this apartment building on Main Street.  That splendid Prairie-style couplet was severed when the house was relocated to its present site around the corner on Ninth Street in 1925.  From 1929 to 1934 Klutho had his office in a downstairs apartment; he also resided in this building for several years.  In 1943 the building was sold to Isaiah Dionne, who changed the name to Dionne's Springfield Apartments.  The rear portion of the building was ravaged by fire in 1993, and the fate of this building remained uncertain for many years.  In 2000, Fresh Ministries purchased the building, and it is currentyl being restored it under the guidance of architect Robert C. Broward. 

An unsolved mystery about this building is the existence of a nearly identical building in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Known as the El Canon Apartment Building (now called Overlook Place Condominiums), it is located at 2577 Overlook Road.  It was built in 1916, three years after the Jacksonville building,  and its design is credited to Ohio architect Paul Matzinger.

This building bears a remarkable resemblance to the Klutho Apartments, as seen in the photo below.