The house was originally built as a one-and-a-half-story clapboarded farmhouse, with a gable roof and a central brick chimney, and was located on the Finnell Ranch, almost a mile east of its current location in downtown Yountville.

[2] The 1907-08 renovation added the gabled second-story room cantilevered over the front porch, with large window facing southeast.

[2] It also added/expanded to the northwest (apparently, while "north" is stated), forming a wing making an "L" with the original house.

[2] A second contributing building is a shiplap-sided gabled two-story carriage house/barn (photo #4), opening onto Webber Avenue, which was built in 1905.

It had sliding frame double-doors, and a rectangular door and square windows above in the gable end.