Description

The Federal Building stands five stories tall and sports an exterior of New Hampshire granite and Indiana cream limestone. The roof is made of copper. On the main entrance side, which faces City Hall located across the Plaza, two groups of statues, carved of Tennessee marble, flank the portals.

The group on the left typifies the city of Providence - Independent Thought is in the middle flanked by statues representing Industry and Learning. The other personifies the United States - the middle figure is Sovereignty with Justice and Law and Order at her sides. The commission for these was awareded to well-known New York sculptor, and native of Scotland, J. Massey Rhind. Rhind had just recently completed the statuary on a Government Building in Indianapolis, IN to critic acclaim.