The roof is surrounded by a low balustrade above a modillioned cornice, and is pierced by two interior brick chimneys.

The doorway is framed by sidelight windows and an elliptical fanlight, with pilasters rising to the base of the portico top.

The house interior features lavishly-carved woodwork in the public spaces on the first floor, including fireplace mantels, cornices, internal window shutters, and the stairway balustrades.

[2] The house was built in 1804 by Samuel McIntire in a Federal style for John and Sarah (West) Gardner.

Joseph White,[4] whose death prompted a famous trial prosecuted by Daniel Webster.