It is the signature landmark of Marshall and is frequently used to represent East Texas in travel literature.

The structure was designed by James Riely Gordon and supervised by a local architect C. G. Lancaster.

In between the V-shaped brick pillars are three marble columns; one on each side of every window set into the walls supporting the outer dome.

The windows are aligned to feed light through stained glass insets in the coffered dome hanging over the rotunda.

The outer dome rise in from the cornice, which if viewed from above would appear as a circle inside a hexagon.