It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 1, 1982.

[1] The fine Italianate style house is two stories, clapboard-clad, with a rectangular cupola.

The hood moulds above the windows are decorated with a vine carving.

The front door has an elliptical fanlight and sidelights framed by a porch with Doric columns.

Wright was a native of Athens, Pennsylvania who came to Wausau in the 1870s[3] and founded Wausau Iron Works, which built machinery for railroads and sawmills in Wisconsin.