Built in 1855, it is one of the region's finest examples of Italianate architecture, its design attributed to Thomaston native Benjamin S. Deane.

Ground floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings topped by bracketed and eared cornices.

The front facade is three bays wide, with the center entrance sheltered by a porch supported by paired square posts and topped by a bracketed roof.

[2] The house was built in 1855 for George Thorndike a prominent local shipbuilder and ship's captain.

The house was, at the time of its construction, one of the most architecturally sophisticated in the region, and is one of only a few in central Maine from the period that has a rusticated exterior.