Federation Building

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194-foot, 16-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1928. Designed by Buchman & Kahn, it is clad in brown brick above a 2-story grey granite base. The facade is organized into three bays; the main entrance is in the narrower west bay, with three recessed brass-and-glass doors below a panel of darker-grey granite with large silver numerals "71" for the address. The east part of the ground floor has two storefronts and a deeply recessed service entrance at the far right. The west storefront is framed in stainless-steel and has a steel canopy. The 2nd floor has a band of 9-over-2 windows across the east two bays, and a 3-over-2 window in the west bay.

The upper floors have four windows in the two wider bays, and paired windows in the narrower west bay. There are continuous stone sill and lintel courses across the whole facade above the 3rd-floor windows and below the 4th-floor windows; on the floor above, the bands cross only the two eastern bays. In the brick spandrels between floors there are small accent ornaments at each intermediate pier (between the windows) of the wide bays; at the west bay there are similar but slightly larger accents only between the 3rd & 4th floors.

The east bay sets back above the 7th floor, and the middle bay above the 8th floor, beginning a series of staggered, cascading setbacks every two floors to the roof line. The west bay rises vertically to the roof line, with decorative brickwork and Art-Deco geometric patterns at the top two floors along belt courses. These also appear along the rest of the roof line, and at the last setback before the roof line in the middle bay.

The east-facing wall of the narrow west bay has one window at the 12th & 13th floors, two windows at the 14th, and three windows at the 15th & 16th floors, due to the growing space created by the setbacks at the east bays. The west elevation is clad in the same brown brick, with a bay of paired windows at the front, a bay of single-windows in the center, and a bay of smaller windows at the rear. There are several shallow setbacks across the north-facing rear facade, and a tall mechanical penthouse at the north end of the roof. The ground floor is occupied by a Valley National Bank branch, Dalia Diamonds, and New Liberty Loans real estate buyers.