It was designed by the Boston firm of Peabody and Stearns and built in 1885-1886 for prepared lumber magnate Daniel Webster Robinson.

It is a three-story wood-frame structure, basically rectangular, with its massing obscured by a wealth of asymmetrical architecture typical of the Queen Anne period.

The front facade features a low projecting turret on the second level at the right corner, with a wraparound porch that is open across most of the front, with a roofed corner pavilion at the left, and a covered porch on the right side that continues to a shingled porte-cochere with rounded opening.

The interior of the building retains a significant amount of original woodwork and other decorative elements, despite its extended use as a sorority house.

[2] The house was built in 1885-85 for Daniel Webster Robinson, then a leading force in one of Burlington's largest lumber companies.