Originally this building housed a gas station and offices erected for one of the subsidiary and successor companies continuing in the name of Standard Oil (one inscription is still visible on the north elevation) after that company’s dissolution in 1911. Dressed in Renaissance Revival garb, the modern fireproof structure was the grandest service station in downtown Savannah. It diverged from the others by incorporating the drive-through area into the body of the building rather than setting it under an attached canopy. Glazed terra-cotta blocks mimic rusticated masonry with an elegantly bracketed cornice and metal sash windows set in delicate spiral colonette decoration. The 1985 renovation included excavating the underground gas tanks beneath the porte-cochere, revealing the subterranean brick walls and stairs of an earlier building, and leaving the space as a sunken court, which was covered over to restore its drive-through use for a bank in 2005.