It is located on La Puente Road (about 50 feet (15 m) off the east side of it) and about 150 yards (140 m) north of Hatchery Road, just above the drop-off from the first plateau to the river.[2]
The house is significant as an "excellent, well-preserved example of local folk architecture."[2]
A hewn horizontal log shed is the second historic structure of the property; its logs may have been obtained from Fort Lowell.[2]