"[2] Its interior includes "impressive" woodwork in five fireplace mantels, built-in cupboards, and other details.

Vimont bought the bank building two years later, and further purchased the large stone house around 1834.

[2] The stone houses were built by Thomas Metcalfe or by his older brother John "according to local tradition" (meaning this is not confirmed by documentation).

The stone work of the south end building ("Althorpe") and what is called the bank house adjacent to it is of a high quality and similar to other Kentucky stone residences nearby ("Fairchild," no longer extant, the home of General James Garrard in Bourbon County; the Green County Courthouse, built by the later governor of Kentucky, Thomas Metcalfe; the Philip Grimes House in Fayette County).

Noteworthy too is the fact that the first and second owners of the buildings, the McKees and the Vimonts, were early settlers of Millersburg and important to the commercial development of the town.