It consists of a 1+1⁄2-story main block, five bays wide, with a 1-story, three-bay wing.

The Dutch Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer devised a solution to sustain the financial viability of the land without selling it.

He divided the estate into parcels and granted tenants perpetual leases at moderate rates of about one percent of the land's output.

The solution greatly increased the productivity for the land and generated large economic benefit for the entire Albany area.

The current farm property includes the original parcel leased from Van Rensselaer.