The Georgian style house was built c. 1758 by missionary Gideon Hawley, who ministered to the nearby Mashpee Wampanoags, and he lived there until his death in 1807.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a side-gable roof, wood shingled exterior, and a slightly off-center chimney that is not original.

The entrance, located in the second bay from the left, is flanked by pilasters and sheltered by an early-20th-century portico.

The house was moved back from its original site during a road widening project in 1920.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 13, 1987.