It was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon and Reuben Harrison Hunt with watercolor murals by Hilton Leech.

[4] Chattanooga's Post Office and Courthouse was built as part of an expanded federal construction program, undertaken in the 1930s under the direction of Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon.

[4] The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, as part of a thematic nomination of the most significant buildings of Reuben Harrison Hunt.

[4] The Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and U.S. Court-house stands in the central business district of Chattanooga.

These flank a 13-bay central section with 13 three-story windows groups, recessed behind marble pilasters with fluted inner panels.

A banded beltcourse running between the fourth floor and the parapet features a pattern of stars and eagles carved in low relief.

In each pavilion the paired and single entrance doors are surmounted by a curving window bay that rises four stories.

[4] The rear of the building is dominated by a five-story central section, flanked by one-story pavilions built to house the post office work floors.

Dark-veined marble staircases with ornate metal railings lead to the upper stories from the entrance foyers.

The mural illustrates the history of the city through the New Deal era and includes a transmission tower symbolizing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), headquartered in Chattanooga from its inception in 1935.