For many years the Imperial Cafe was located in the retail space of this structure. It was built by George McCarty as a commercial and hotel building. Five bays wide, the building houses retail space on the street level with plate-glass commercial fronts of more recent vintage. Originally three separate storefronts with plate-glass windows over marble kick panels existed. At the second floor line, brick panels are recessed creating a simple frieze which appears to support a continuous stone sill serving the second floor windows.
Windows are one over one, double hung, and set in pairs in the east and west bays.
The remaining windows are single and set between monumental, three-story brick pilasters. A parapet extends several feet above a heavy pressed metal cornice with dentils. The structure was rehabilitated in 1987 with assistance from the City's Historic Facade Program. Bruce trained in the Nashville, Tennessee office of English architect H. M. Akeroid. In 1879, he came to Atlanta to form a partnership with W. H. Parkins.