It was designed by Willis Leigh and built by Frank Benton It first opened in 1932 as LeRoy's Seaside Inn, by Henry LeRoy of Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

The inn is a 2+1⁄2-story, balloon-frame building in the vernacular Shingle Style.

The building is divided into three equal sections (approximately 25 feet by 60 feet each) separated by open breezeways and arranged in an H-shaped configuration.

Surrounding the building is a two-story engaged verandah.

This article about a property in Dare County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.