The Brandon Telephone Building is the city's second purpose-built structure for housing the telephone exchange equipment and offices. The first was the brick building (today covered in metal siding) to the south of the newer edifice. The older exchange was constructed in the 1890s by the Bell Telephone Company- although telephones had been first installed in Brandon as early as 1882. The Bell monopoly ended in 1908 when the Provincial Government took over the telephone system. The Winnipeg architects, Fingland and Hanford, designed Brandon's new telephone building in the Georgian Revival style. Originally the building was two storeys high, terminating at the projecting cornice. The third floor is a 1929 addition. The composition is a careful balancing of five bays, with the centre three recessed. The pediment over the main entrance has been mirrored by the pediment above the window at the other corner. The Telephone Building illustrates the change of taste which look place in brickwork just before the War. Ornamentation in earlier buildings, such as those along Rosser Avenue, often relied upon either recessing or projecting bricks. On the Telephone Building, however, brick decoration is formed with flat panels of geometrical patterns. Moreover, the brick itself was in the more fashionable rough texture.
The building is currently housing the Brandon General Museum & Archives.