Built in 1894, it is one of the state's finest examples of a mature Shingle style residence.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story rectangular wood-frame structure, oriented with its main facade to the south.

[2] The house was built in 1893–94, a boom period of growth in the city, and has been relatively little-altered since.

It was designed as a collaboration between Arthur Wyatt, a photographer, and Francis Cabot, a Boston-based architect who was from Brattleboro, and was at the time the northernmost house on Brattleboro's Main Street.

The house is accompanied by a complete set of original design drawings.