All I'll say is that in an age of Clewes-fashionability, it's currently in the unfashionable "Nay" stage of its existence. If it were built *today*, it'd be chewed up to no end in UT (at least, by the Urban Shocker/Zephyr contingent) as the embodiment of urbanistic retro-schlock.
My own attitude is "for what it is, etc etc". And my pet name for the granite-chesterfield sculpture on the other side of the arch is the Tomb Of The Unknown Scientologist--all the L. Ron Hubbard adherents march processionally through that arch and jump on the chesterfield, Tom Cruise-style...