The Georgian Revival style structure was designed by the architectural section of the U.S. Treasury Department, which was under the supervision of James Knox Taylor at that time.

[2] Completed in 1904, the main block of the building is five bays wide, and three deep.

It has quoined corners, and it is capped with a hipped roof with a wooden modillion cornice and a narrow, decorative frieze.

An addition was built onto the west side of the building in 1932, and an enclosed loading dock was added in 1951.

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