Its facade of smooth limestone distinguished it in a city center where brick and Portland brownstone were the common building materials.

Two naked shoulders of smooth limestone dropped cleanly down, verging a little together, and at the bottom there was only room for the river bed.

"A natural dam of smooth limestone," stated The Condor.

Just over three inches tall, the smooth limestone carving represents a lion with the body of a human weight lifter.

The building is a one-and-a-half-story rectangular structure on a stone foundation, slightly exposed and faced in smooth limestone.

Lithography (stone printing, often using smooth limestone), was first used in England in 1803.

The major, or entrance, elevation faces Virginia Street with monumental design features and walls clad in smooth gray limestone.

The remainder of the building is clad with smooth limestone or steel/aluminum and glass curtain walls.

The next two floor levels are clad with smooth limestone and contain long horizontal bands of windows.

It is faced in smooth ashlar limestone with alternating bands of rough stone.