[1] The Greenwood House is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, set on a wooded knoll between Maine State Route 27 and the Sandy River, south of downtown Farmington.

The house as asymmetrical massing typical of the Queen Anne period, its most prominent feature being a three-story octagonal tower topped by a bellcast pyramidal roof.

The lower levels of the tower have rectangular sash windows, while the third level has arched windows, a detail repeated in a large half-story gable project from the hip roof to the left of the tower.

There is delicate sawn woodwork in a frieze band below the main roof, and in the front-facing gable.

He engaged in many other business endeavours in Farmingtion, including establishing its first telephone exchange (with equipment he manufactured), a bicycle factory, and a machine shop.