[citation needed] The Art Deco building was designed by the firm of Taylor and Fisher, and completed in eighteen months, fashioned from Indiana sandstone and local brick over a steel frame[5] at a cost of (U.S.) $3 million.

[6] The building's exterior is decorated with carved Romanesque human and animal images, stylized eagles, and is capped with a copper and gold roof.

The ornate, two-story main banking lobby is highly decorated with mosaic floors designed by Hildreth Meiere,[7] and historic murals by Griffith Baily Coale and McGill Mackall on historic themes: the Baltimore fire of 1904, and the writing of the National Anthem at the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.

In December 2012, the building was acquired by a Virginia firm, Metropolitan Partnership Ltd., which plans to convert all floors above the fourth into 445 residential apartments.

[10] Now a portion of the ground floor is occupied by the FX Studios & Under Armour Performance Center while the majority of its remainder is employed as apartments or office space, the building now also features a penthouse.