It is a two-and-one-half-story stone and brick building with a gable roof.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

A notable Academy graduate was politician Albert B. Cummins (1850-1926).

After the Academy closed in 1893, the building was subsequently used for a Grand Army of the Republic meeting hall, as well as apartments.

The building underwent restoration in the mid-1970s to house the Greene Academy of Art.