Standing in isolation on its triangular site, this robust neoclassical revival building is faced in granite and terra-cotta. In 1914 the city held a limited competition among three architects: R. H. Hunt of Chattanooga, Clarence L. Hutchisson of Mobile, and P. J. Krouse of Meridian. Krouse’s scheme was selected, but Hutchisson is listed on the building’s cornerstone as the consulting architect. Above the city hall’s rusticated base and between its substantial corner piers, attached Ionic columns wrap all four sides and are surmounted by a continuous entablature and projecting cornice, a starburst-patterned balustrade, which is paneled over the north entrances, and finally a crown of antefixes. Inside and beyond the monumental marble stair, the piano-nobile level is filled with modular bays of marble Doric columns and pilasters carrying architraves with triglyphs.