[1] The Katharine Seymour Day House is located in the Nook Farm area of Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood, at the southwest corner of Farmington Avenue and Forest Street.

The house is a 2+1⁄2-story stone structure, built out of a multicolored combination of brownstone and limestone.

It is a fine local example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture, with a busy exterior in terms of color and organization, with projecting gables, dormers and porches.

[2] The house was designed by Francis H. Kimball and was built for Franklin Chamberlin; the project was completed in 1884.

[3] The house was later owned by Willie Olcott Burr, publisher of The Hartford Times newspaper.