The house is an excellent example of Italianate architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

It has a basic T-shaped layout, with gabled projections to both sides, with its main facade oriented facing east.

It has high-style Italianate decorative features, including roof dormers with finials, a bracketed cornice, polygonal window bays, and a porch with chamfered posts.

The house is a close implementation of Plate 21 of Villas and Cottages, a design pattern book published by Calvert Vaux.

[2] The factory complex was destroyed by fire in 1972; Fairbanks' house, which he occupied until 1872, has been converted for use as professional offices.