Built on the first floor and foundations of an earlier building, the Paul Brown Building makes up roughly the other half of the block occupied by the Arcade-Wright Building.
I find the decoration in terracotta hard to quantify: what style is it really other than a playful mixture of different styles such as a dentilated cornice paired with what almost looks like Moorish arches?
Even more fascinating is how the terracotta has little black specks mixed in with the tan/buff clay.
Not sure what these figures represent on the front portal, but one looks like a painter.
Could the specks be a remnant of long-ago coal dust soot that reacted with ? in the clay mixture that resisted subsequent cleaning efforts?
Possible that there was an impurity in the terracotta that oxidized over the decades–I will investigate.