The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

It is a three-story, seventeen-bay, brick building that sits on a raised basement.

Designed in the Colonial Revival style, it features a central projecting entrance pavilion of stone, brick pilasters, and stone cornice and brick parapet.

[2] It was named for Naval hero John Paul Jones (1747–1792).

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.