The main facade faces north toward Austin Street, and is five bays wide, with stone beltcourses below and above the first floor.

The entrance is in the center bay, set in a Romanesque round-arch openings with stone voussoirs.

The bays above the entrance have paired narrow windows set on shared stone lintels.

Pilasters rise flanking the central three bays, beyond the top of the building to form a parapet, with corbelled brickwork between.

[3] The building was designed by Barker & Nourse and built in 1894 at a cost of $25,000 for Abigail Russell Parsons.