The Greek Revival-style house features a Carolina-type, hexastyle portico with Doric columns.

[1] Belvoir was established as a large forced-labor cotton farm in 1825 by Reuben Saffold II.

They moved to Clarke County, Mississippi Territory, in 1813, where he participated in the Creek War in 1813-14.

Gosse later wrote about his experiences at Belvoir, including his negative impressions of slavery, in Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History.

The house was in a state of disrepair by the late 1990s, when it was added as a "Place in Peril" by the Alabama Historical Commission.