The Eli is located at the junction of Church and Wall Streets in downtown New Haven, one block north of the
New Haven Green in the city's commercial business district. It has seventeen stories, and is built out of a steel frame whose exterior is clad mainly in Indiana limestone. A low pink granite wall delineates the property line on Church Street. It rises as a rectangular monolith for thirteen floors, with the upper stories stepped back in stages. The two street-facing facades have two-story entrance pavilions that project. The Art Deco styling includes designs and depictions related to communications, including Classical style human figures wielding lightning bolts. The interior lobby area, also two stories in height, continues these themes, and is richly finished in a variety of materials. The building is regarded as New Haven's "premier" example of
Art Deco architecture, and displays one of the area's most extensive employment of Stony Creek pink granite. ==See also==