The home was built in 1857 in the Italianate style, and was remodeled and enlarged between 1884 and 1891 in the Queen Anne style. It is an irregularly massed, 2+1⁄2-story, slate-roofed clapboard-sheathed house with a 3-story square tower with a pyramidal hipped roof. It has a 1+1⁄2-story shed-roofed wing. A sunflower motif appears on the exterior and interior. Also on the property is a carriage barn built in about 1890.[2]