It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a hip roof and end chimneys.

The two bays to the right of the entrance have been replaced by a projecting bay window with Italianate paired brackets at its cornice, and the windows left of the entrance have a curved cornice from the same period.

The main entrance portico is also an Italianate addition, with jigsawn entablature and an elaborate door surround with diamond-light sidelight windows.

By 1885 it was owned by Edward Johnson, a clerk for the Boston and Maine Railroad.

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