It has three interior end chimneys and a one-story full-width shed roofed front porch with Doric order columns.

Cabinetmaker Lewis Utzman bought the site in 1814 from Charles Fisher for $100 and sold it to Judge James Martin for $1026 in 1819.

[5] It was the home of Maxwell Chambers (1780-1855), a slave owner, planter and manufacturer in Salisbury.

[6] He was also a representative from the Salisbury District in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1779, 1789, and 1790.

[7] This article about a property in Rowan County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.