[2] It was designed by John E. Tourtellotte & Company as a two-story brick "bungaloid" house, nearly square in plan with 28 by 26 feet (8.5 m × 7.9 m) dimensions, plus a two-story ell including a sun porch on lower level and a sleeping porch on upper.

[2] It was deemed notable as "a spectacularly sited and beautifully developed example of a hipped-roofed two-story house with boxy massing.

Like the Gakey house (site 66) it maintains in its main section the boxy hip-roofed form in a relatively vertical format, as compared to a horizontal type like the Numbers house (site 38); and it does so while introducing strong references to the bungalow mode.

Here, however, the floor space of the virtually square main block is extended not to the rear in response to a narrow city lot, but to the side in a two-story sun and sleeping-porch ell.

The execution and detail of the house are superior; it is altogether perhaps the firm's single most successful essay in a style which they generally handled well.