The main house is five bays in length, two and a half stories above a high ground floor, with a gambrel roof.

The house features a small enclosed porch of the Tuscan order that was probably originally considered a porte cochere.

In 1827 Dr. Lennox Birckhead, son of McColloh's business partner Soloman Birkhead purchased the property.

The property passed to Marrietta Glen and was managed by newspaper publisher William Wilkens Glenn.

In 1907 43 acres were donated by Russell Sage Foundation director John Mark Glenn (1858–1950) to create the first section of Patapsco Valley State Park.

[5] Hilton was purchased in 1917 by National Enameling and Stamping Company owner George Worth Knapp as a summer home and dairy farm reassembling 105 acres of the estate.