[2] The residence is two stories plus a basement level, with a red brick façade, white marble and limestone embellishments, and a gabled, slate roof.

[3] It adjoined Harbor Hill, the country seat of Clarence Mackay (to the west), and the home of Harry Payne Whitney (who married Gertrude Vanderbilt) (to the south).

It was near to the "homes of many of America's leading financiers, including Nicholas F. Brady, Otto H. Kahn, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas H. Hitchcock, Elbert H. Gary and Ormond G.

"[2] In 1921, the estate (which had been completed and fully furnished in January 1921, but never lived in), which was valued at over $1,500,000, was to be sold at public auction conducted by Arthur C. Sheridan for the benefit of Mrs. du Pont's child by her first marriage, Alicia Maddox, who had been adopted by Alfred du Pont.

[4] The property was purchased in the 1920s by Frederick Guest (husband of Amy Phipps) and his family, who called it "Templeton".