It is a 1+1⁄2-story Cape style wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with clapboard siding and a stone foundation.

The interior of the house follows a typical central-chimney plan, with a small entry vestibule with a winding staircase to the attic, and rooms to either side.

[4] His wife and child were killed in an Indian raid, he was a leader of the local militia and supposedly carried an implacable hatred of Native Americans.

At the intersection of the high ridge behind Roger's house and the old Douphinette property, there is a Hunnewell family cemetery identifiable today only by the depressions in the ground.

There was at least one murder in the history of the property; and one suicide in which a depressed lady drowned herself in the well near the rear entry of Richard's house.

Based on the personal experiences of Kenneth A. Capron who lived there 1956 - 1968, spending his entire childhood digging under boulders!