The district is primarily residential and includes a variety of Victorian-era mansions and large dwellings in a variety of popular architectural styles including Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and American Four Square The houses are detached or semi-detached and are primarily three stories in height with extensive wings to the rear.

Also located in the district is the St. Stephen's Lutheran Church and the Sailors and Soldiers Monument.

[2][3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, with a boundary increase in 1987.

[1] Residents are zoned to the Red Clay Consolidated School District, both in the original section and the expansion.

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