As of 2012, it serves more than 28,000 people annually via a 1,650 square foot gallery, a 99-seat proscenium theater, and art & music studios.

[2] Outside the building is one of only two remaining cast-iron sidewalk clocks in New York City,[3] as well as a late-Victorian era headquarters of the Jamaica Savings Bank next door.

It was built between 1895 and 1913 and is an imposing, three story building with a limestone facade in the Neo-Italian Renaissance style.

The facade features deep rustication on the first floor and a smooth ashlar surface above.

The building housed the Office of the Register until 1974, after which it became the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL).