It was built about 1900, as a simply designed, two-story frame farm house.

It has flanking two-story side galleries and a center pedimented pavilion.

It features a two-story portico supported by two Corinthian order columns.

It was originally the home of "Colonel" James M. Canty, one of the early instructors at the West Virginia Colored Institute.

This article about a property in Kanawha County, West Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.