It was built in 1899, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular, frame mill building on a sandstone foundation.

It has a side gable roof topped by a cupola.

Conservationist Leo Drey purchased the property in 1987, and later sold it to the Forest Service for incorporation into the Eleven Point District of the Mark Twain National Forest.

[2]: 5, 12 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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