The residence, built around 1900, is a one-story four-bay triple-A five-gable house with one-story ell, two-bay hip-roof porch, sawnwork embellishments, T-plan center-hall interior, cornice returns, variously shaped ventilators, narrow-board designs in four of the gables, and two interior brick corbeled-cap chimneys. More information about this photograph can be found on page 332 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.