Designed by W(alter) D’Arcy Ryan, who also designed the "Path of Gold" streetlights along Market Street, 124–125 the distinctive 2750 pounds street lamp, painted in traditional Chinese colors of red, gold and green, was composed of a cast-iron hexagonal base supporting a lotus and bamboo shaft surmounted with two cast-aluminum dragons below a pagoda lantern with bells and topped by a stylized hexagonal red roof —all in keeping with the Oriental style pioneered by Look Tin Eli (1910).