[2] There was debate about using the property as a restaurant but ultimately the plans were approved as being sufficiently respectful of the historical nature of the site.

[3] In 1803 his great-grandson, noted engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin, greatly enlarged the house to its current form.

The house is nearly cubical in form, three stories tall, with false ashlar front facade and clapboarding elsewhere, full-height pilasters at the corners, and a balustrade above the eaves.

The entry door is ornamented with a classic pediment and lights, and further graced by an elegant Palladian window above.

[4] In 1971 the house was moved to its current site to make way for expansion of a supermarket shopping area, immediately adjacent to the Middlesex Canal, from its original location just west of Main Street at the Route 128 rotary (now commercial sprawl).