The Verona Apartments were built in 1896 by the Detroit firm of Malcomson and Higginbotham.

[2] The original layout of the apartment building had 16 luxury suites.

[2] The Verona Apartments consist of a five-story central section with flanking three-story wings.

[2] The base of the structure is stone; the main body is built of brick, originally orange but now painted gray.

[2] There are decorative touches throughout the exterior of the building, including the friezework above the first-floor windows, the bowed structures flanking the entrance, and inlays above the first and fifth floors.