Over a limestone base, the architects Starrett & Van Vleck put an Italian Renaissance-style facade of gray faced brick, topped by a giant colonnade of marble and a copper cornice.

The three-story building's exterior walls and twelve-story clock tower were composed of pink granite and red pressed brick topped by a number of steeply-pitched roofs.

It was four feet of solid brick topped by six feet of wiring; and the wiring had a look of high voltage.

The Mediterranean Revival building is a two-story brick and stucco structure topped by hipped roofs clad with terra cotta tiles.

Along all its street elevations the building shows an exposed foundation faced in rusticated brick topped by a terra cotta water table.

The Granger Building looks just like hundreds of office buildings constructed in the twenties-yellow brick, symmetrical narrow windows banded with granite friezes, topped by a steeply pitched roof with matching gables.

The Engine House is a two-story red brick building with trim of red-orange sandstone and salmon colored brick topped with a high double-pitch hip roof in the front and a lower roof in the rear.

Four-story arched bays march boldly across its brick and terra-cotta facade, topped by two-story arches and a ring of human masks wearing grotesque facial expressions.

In the middle are four round columns of used brick topped with Doric capitals made of limestone.