The building is located on the north side of Buffalo Street, roughly a quarter-mile (500 m) east of where it forks south from U.S. Route 20, of which it was once part.

A narrow walk in the middle of the lawn goes the depth of the setback, equivalent to the distance to the rear wall of neighboring houses.

In the rear, on Church Street, is a large parking lot for town officials and employees.

The building itself is a three-story five-by-four-bay structure faced in cobblestones 4–7 inches (10–18 cm) wide on the front set amid mortar.

[1] The door opens onto a central hallway with large meeting rooms used by both town and village on either side.

Some original finishings, such as plaster ceilings, high wooden wainscoting and deep window frames, remain from its early 20th century use as a public school.

A thousand of those dollars were contributed by State Senator Henry Hawkins, one of the leading businessmen of Alexander at the time.

[9] By the middle of the century the school reached its peak enrollment of 300 students, many boarders, drawn from 14 states.

In the decades afterward, the school evolved from a private to a public institution, a transition aided by new state laws making education compulsory.

The interior was remodeled for the new purposes, but the exterior remained untouched[1] A 1908 fire in the boiler room did slight damage to the first floor;[9] another one broke out in 1937.

[3] Major renovations in the mid-1990s shored up the building's structural system and remodeled the entire interior.