Executed in yellowish-brownish Indiana sandstone, the Moderne city hall funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) is a flat roofed, two-story version of the upright and wing form of scheme. Stylized machine-carved rectangles ornament panels between upper- and lower-story windows, and the recessed entrance telescopes to the door. Thompson (b. 1903), a native of Cheboygan who was trained at Chicago Technical College and worked in Chicago as a draftsman and supervising architect, designed the city hall and Muskegon Construction built it.