The property includes, in addition to the main house, several barns and sheds as outbuildings, and is set off from the road by a flush-boarded fence with granite posts, all painted a reddish color.

Original furnishings and Morrill family possessions remain in the house, from the furniture to linens and kitchen implements.

Exterior alterations are similarly modest, including the replacement of rotted trim elements with matching materials.

Morrill primarily used the house as a summer residence, as a spent much of his time in Washington, DC, where he died in 1898.

These acts made possible the establishment of a significant number of state-run universities, as well as a few private schools that were contracted to the state to fulfill the requirements needed to receive the federal grants.