[1] According to its NRHP nomination it is a "rare application" of Prairie School architecture in North Dakota.

[2] The editor, George Douglas Mann, recruited a Great Falls, Montana, designer to plan this flame resistant structure with substantial casing and floors, primary mud tile dividers, and Hebron pressed block outside.

The famous Prairie Style configuration accentuates flat extents and joins enhancing brickwork with applied earthenware decoration with themes of adapted lights, blossoms, leaves, and lotus buds.

Block header courses emphasize the pilasters that help rectangular spandrels between the first-and second-floor windows.

The Bismarck Tribune Building has filled in as office space since the newspaper relocated its operations in 1981.