The building consists of two conjoined barns—a two-story cross-gable-roof stable with large sash windows from 1896 and a circa 1930 gambrel-roof dairy barn with an octaganol silo topped by two gable-roof dormers. More information about this photograph can be found on page 158 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.