It is a single-story masonry structure, whose front facade features five bay windows sheltered by awnings, and a high parapet with cornice above.

A major extension to the rear is covered by a hip roof, and includes space historically used both by its retail tenants and as residences for owners and employees.

The building was built in 1896–97, and originally housed a grocery store serving the area's predominantly German-American population.

Original plans were to run it right through the Ross Building property, but the highway's completion was delayed until 1985 due to protests about its route.

[2] The firm, in 2019, then as Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, was renovating the Winchester Building elsewhere in Little Rock, also National Register-listed in 2019, for its use.