Built for a physician, it was for many years the home of local business leaders, and it has been named a historic site.

[2]: 642  Besides his medical practice, he was a businessman, serving as president of the village's Mutual Loan and Savings Company in the 1910s.

[6] Built in the Colonial Revival style of architecture, it features a symmetrical facade with significant design elements such as a Palladian window and a porch with Ionic columns.

[4]: 3  Individuals may enter the house through a transomed doorway on the porch underneath a bay that protrudes from the residue of the second-floor facade.

It was one of approximately twenty different Mechanicsburg locations to be listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission.