It is five bays wide and two deep, with a center entrance set in an opening with a Federal style fanlight.

[2] The house was built in 1824 for an English glassmaker employed at the New England Glass Company.

In 1910 it was moved within its original lot facing Monsignor O'Brien Highway to accommodate a road widening project.

The house is distinctive in Cambridge as a rare example Federal period brick architecture, the only such example with a fanlight above the entrance.

It is also one of the few residential buildings to survive from the early years of East Cambridge's development.