[1][2] It is significant as being the most prominent historic ranch house in the Lovelock Valley, and for association with Colonel Joseph Marzen, as well as for its Italianate architecture.

The two-story house is designed with ornate jigsaw cutout window moldings and corner-boards.

The leading doorway has ornate Victorian double doors and a transom above decorated with frosted glass surrounded by cutout molding.

After around 2 years, he returned to the Lovelock Valley to build a house there and so he bought land in the area of Big Meadows.

The later possessors were well-known people like Louis Aloys Friedman, the Baldwin estate, and Raymond Lewis Knisley.