Built in 1915, it is a Colonial Revival brick house with unusual cast and poured concrete trim elements.

[1] The Perkins House stands near the southern Rutland city limit, at the southeast corner of Curtis and South Main Streets (the latter designated United States Route 4).

The house is a 2+1⁄2-story masonry structure, set near the front of a large landscaped lot that extends east to Chase Avenue.

Perkins' father founded the company in 1872, at first processing low-grade iron ore, but shifting to clay when the mines proved a better source of that material.

The house's exterior is built largely out of such materials, with major structural elements of its porches made of concrete poured in place.