It is located at 3624 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the Bronzeville section of the Douglas community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

It is a three-story structure built out of ashlar granite in the Romanesque Revival style which was popular around 1890.

The right bay is topped by a gabled wall dormer with a pair of round-arch windows at its center.

The interior's original layout had a side hall plan, with public rooms on the ground floor, bedrooms on the second, and a ballroom on the third.

She was an outspoken advocate for African-American civil rights, and regularly wrote about the brutality of the Jim Crow south, particularly on the subject of lynching.