Brownwood’s prominence as a regional financial and transportation center is illustrated by the numerous mid-rise bank and hotel buildings downtown. This former bank, renovated into apartments for low-income residents, is a six-story buff brick slab. The lower two floors are ordered by flat brick pilasters with lion’s mask capitals supporting a continuous stone and brick entablature. The tall parapet has arched panels of terra-cotta in the end bays with vertical arabesques capping the tops of the piers along E. Lee Street. The overall effect is modestly classical.
Nearby at 200 Fisk Street, the former Hotel Brownwood (1930) by Wyatt C. Hedrick is a twelve-story red brick slab with limestone window surrounds on the second and twelfth floors similar to those Hedrick used on his numerous Spanish Colonial–styled hotels in the 1920s. Hedrick was also the developer of the Hotel Brownwood.