[5] The five-story store and office building is located on the northeast corner of SW Fifth Avenue and Morrison Street in the center of Portland's retail district.

Its exterior is faced entirely with cream colored glazed terra cotta, enhanced with a variety of classically inspired decorative motifs.

[1] The store's design is in the Commercial style of the Chicago school, with detailing in the Classical vein.

It exhibits the retail base including mezzanine level and multiple stories capped with a full classical entablature that are characteristic of Commercial style emporiums.

[1] The attic, or parapet wall above the cornice carries the store's title in escutcheons centered on either street face.