The original residence, a one-room log structure with rare tilted false plate and fine Federal and Greek Revival features, was built by 1800. The house was constructed using massive 18 inch planed logs joined by half-dovetail notches and a tilted false plate. Later, around 1840, a transitional Federal/Greek Revival mortise-and-tenon weatherboard addition transformed the log structure into a hall-parlor house with end chimneys, nine-over-nine and nine-over-six sash windows, and a shed-roof front porch with elaborate fluted Ionic pillars. More information about this photograph can be found on page 245 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.