The brick walls of the addition are broken up by small, evenly spaced, double hung windows in vertically parallel rows.

The slates are several different patterns set in rows of three; the central east facade of the roof is crowned by a wooden cupola with windows and a spire.

Double-hung arched windows are arranged in horizontally and vertically parallel double rows equally spaced around the house.

Also, a small unornamented service porch on the south side of the southwest corner, has been removed, although the door still remains.

In the late 1800s, the original "Gold Coast" area of Omaha lay south of the business district, roughly from Pierce to Dorcas between 8th & 11th Streets.

The Cornish house was built in a period when Omaha was witnessing an influx of cultured eastern families who brought with them wealth and professional skills.

The almost pure French Second Empire Cornish house was such a structure, but the front veranda shows a clear manifestation of the American taste in residential architecture.

The fifteen-room mansion with its thirteen-foot ceilings, beautiful floors bordered with parquet woodwork, and four fireplaces, was the showplace of an already elegant neighborhood.