The residence, built circa 1875, is a two-story farm house with pre-Victorian rural architecture. Its main block is a single-pile three-bay structure with four rooms divided by a central hallway. Other features of the house include three wide stone chimneys with paved brick stacks, front and rear facades with shed-roof porches, tin-shingle roof, corner pilasters, nine-over-six sash windows on the first level, and six-over-six sash windows everywhere else. More information about this photograph can be found on page 292 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.