It is a red brick building, two stories in height, with white Italianate trim and black shutters.

It has an irregular plan, with porches flanking a projecting central gabled entry pavilion.

Windows on the second level are set in round-arch openings, with deeply projecting bracketed cornices above.

It resembles another Vaux design apparently never completed for E. S. Hall in Middletown, Connecticut, dating to earlier in his career.

[3] Vaux was at the time of the commission just 34, and had recently struck out on his own after having worked with Andrew Jackson Downing, a major proponent of the Italianate style.