It is an ornate Victorian Gothic/Stick style two-story granite structure, designed by noted New York City architect Calvert Vaux.

It is a large masonry structure, 2-1/2 stories in height, built out of ashlar granite blocks of different colors, and covered by a steeply pitched gabled slate roof.

It has applied Stick style woodwork in a number of its gables, and some of its stone window lintels feature carved rosettes.

George Bull, a young doctor, found the house too expensive to keep, and eventually separated from his wife and moved west.

Helen Marble, wife of the next owner, was the daughter of Ethan Allen, who was like Daniel Wesson involved in the manufacture of arms.