Built by German immigrant Balthasar Kreischer about 1885, it is a large, asymmetrically massed 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame house in the American Queen Anne style.

The rectangular house features spacious verandas, gables with jigsaw bargeboards, decorative railings, posts and brackets, tall chimneys, and a corner tower.

[1] On June 8, 1894, Edward B. Kreischer allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the right temple near his place of business,[3] although murder is an ongoing theory.

[2] In 1998, the Kreischer Mansion was bought with the intention of restoration and eventual sale by Isaac Yomtovian.

[5] He was convicted of the murder of rival mob associate Robert McKelvey, committed three years earlier on the property.