An identifiable landmark in Belleville Ontario, this building was completed during the economic depression of 1873.
It was designed in the High Victorian Gothic Revival style by local architect John D. Evans and built by contractor John Forin.
This brick and limestone building is distinguished by its tall Gothic Revival windows on the second floor, a bell-cast mansard roof with dormers, a massive 144-foot clock tower with octagonal buttresses, blind arcades of Gothic columns, four large illuminated clock faces and cast iron railings and weathervanes.