The house's design incorporates features of the Italianate and Renaissance Revival styles; the combination is unusual, as the Renaissance Revival style was rarely used in small houses.

Briggs built the house with multicolored sandstone and used marble and granite to form decorative belt courses and quoins, giving the house its Renaissance Revival appearance.

The house's Italianate elements include its tall, narrow arched windows and its gently sloping roof.

[2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 1980.

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