A monumental Beaux-Arts banking temple in gray stone, its Locust Street front a giant Corinthian order — colossal engaged columns and pilasters carrying a full entablature cut with "REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK." Behind the order the wall is glazed in tall windows set with scrolled bronze grilles, so the four floors within read as a single lofty story. Carved eagles perch in the column capitals and in a spread-winged crest with shield and fasces at the parapet, and fruit swags flank an urn in the panels over the ground-floor windows. A lower stone wing of arched and pedimented windows runs back along the side street.
The building was erected for the Republic National Bank to the design of Tom P. Barnett, a Beaux-Arts banking temple whose four stories were composed to read as a single grand hall behind the colossal order. It was renovated in 1979 and is now occupied by the law firm Lashly & Baer, for which it is sometimes called the Lashly & Baer Building.
