It is a large two story, rectangular frame industrial building constructed in 1934 as a seafood packing plant.

It is significant for its historical association with the commercial fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River region, and architecturally as a substantially unaltered example of an early-20th century seafood packing plant.

It has been adapted by the Calvert Marine Museum to house exhibits and many of its original spaces, artifacts, and records have been incorporated into them.

Lore established his own oyster packing house in Solomons in 1922, but it was destroyed by the powerful 1933 hurricane, and was rebuilt in 1934.

Two boats, the William B. Tennison and the Sidney B. Riggin, were converted bugeyes, former sailing oyster dredges.

[3] The Lore company ceased business in 1978, a victim of declining harvests and shortages of cheap labor.

The present 1934 structure is a two-story building or somewhat irregular plan, clad in novelty-style wood siding, with a metal roof.

A one-story shed-roofed wing extends to the south, while a 1965 concrete block addition covers two thirds of the rear elevation.

[3] Buckets of shucked oysters were passed through a window into the processing room, where they were rinsed, weighed and tallied.