The residence was originally a two- or three-room 19th century log house (known as the Bridges House) before it was bought and enlarged around 1916. The house is now a one-and-a-half-story four-bay high-hip-roof dwelling with wraparound hip-roof porch, gable-roof dormer, rear one-story wing, gable interruption with lunette marks on the porch, end chimney made of well-coursed fieldstone, tin-shingle roof, and four-over-one sash windows. More information about this photograph can be found on page 327 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.