It has a profile resembling that of a typical New England saltbox house, although its main entrance is on what would normally be considered the side of such a building.

Its oldest portion is a log structure, which was expanded with lumber wood framing, and the whole building is now covered with clapboard siding.

It is the only structure surviving from the route of a 650-mile (1,050 km) delivery of diphtheria serum in 1925 achieved by a relay of dogsled teams.

The roadhouse declined with the advent of aviation to the area, and was used as an orphanage, a military communications facility during World War II, and saw used in the later 20th century as a retail establishment.

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