Facing Woodlawn Avenue, this Depression-era government building has a felicitous and colorful combination of yellow sandstone (the recessed, five-bay central section) and yellow brick (projecting end bays), all above a smooth ashlar plinth. Fluted two-story pilasters with stylized Ionic capitals frame the fenestration of the central section. The three central spandrels are decorative panels showing identical allegorical females who hold, from left to right, a steamship, a steam railroad engine, and an airplane that Amelia Earhart might have piloted. S. H. Bridge, a Beckley architect, worked on the building with Bluefield's talented Alex B. Mahood.