The residence is a two-story four-bay gable-roof central-hall farm house with two vernacular late 19th century mantels, twelve-inch flooring, narrow four-over-four casement windows, a delicate balustrate around the partially enclosed straight-flight stair, and six-over-six sash windows. The original house was built circa 1880. In 1940, the house was altered to include a full-facade shed-roof porch with latticed posts. Nineteen years later, in 1959, the house's ell was removed and replaced with a smaller shed addition. More information about this photograph can be found on page 246 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.