The residence, built circa 1900, is a two-story three-bay triple-A farm house with vernacular Queen Anne decorative motifs. Features of the house include sawtooth shingling and a diamond-shaped ventilator on the central gable of the main facade, hip-roof front porch supported by chamfered posts, two brick end chimneys, one interior chimney in the remodeled one-story ell, central-hallway interior, Victorian mantels in the main block, narrow beaded board sheathing, stair with plain newel and balustrade, and a simple late-Greek Revival mantel located in the ell. More information about this photograph can be found on page 343 of the book The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Carolina written by Rachel Osborn and Ruth Selden-Sturgill.