The severity of this PWA-funded Moderne federal building is in keeping with the austerity of the times. The limestone building has terra-cotta coping and broad granite steps. Its bronze window units with intermediate spandrels are set between fluted piers, giving the impression of a stoa-like colonnade. Bronze fasces with ax heads flank the entrance doors, with bronze ears-of-corn motifs in the grilles above. In front of the building are four freestanding globe stands of bundled fasces, and the central flagpole has bronze eagles on its limestone base.
Marble, including black marble at piers, dominates the entrance foyer and the post office lobby, where postal windows with a high wainscot beneath them are surmounted by a bronze-framed clerestory. An elaborate second-floor courtroom projects to the rear and was the site in 1967 of the trial of Ku Klux Klansmen responsible for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia (see EM2).