The site has been landscaped in a formal arrangement typically found at border stations with a series of approximately six evergreen trees spaced across the side and rear yard.

An original landscaping plan called for spirea, barberry and weigila bushes together with Colorado spruce trees.

[3] The station is three-part in plan with a 1+1⁄2-story, white-painted brick central block and two single story weatherboarded wings on the north and south.

The central block is five bays wide beneath a steeply pitched, end gable, slate roof.

[3] A single-lane inspection canopy on steel-capped columns extends from the main block of the building at eaves level.

Partitions with glass windows and transoms divide each side of the floor space into offices and an open area.

Interior finishes are typical for the border stations, with plaster walls, architrave door surrounds, picture rail, and baseboards defining the spaces.

[3] The clapboard-covered inspector's residence located on the southwest corner of the property is a single-story structure set on high reinforced-concrete foundations.

Colonial Revival in style, the building was designed by Louis A. Simon, Superintending Architect of the Architectural Division of the Treasury, and constructed in 1932.

Mooers shares with the others a residential scale, a Neocolonial style, and an organization to accommodate functions of both customs and immigration services.

[3] Border Stations are associated with four important events in United States history: the imposition of Prohibition between 1919 and 1933; enactment of the Elliott-Fernald public buildings act in 1926 which was followed closely by the Depression; and the growth of the automobile whose price was increasingly affordable thanks to Henry Ford's creation of the industrial assembly line.

The stations were constructed as part of the government's program to improve its public buildings and to control casual smuggling of alcohol which most often took place in cars crossing the border.

An effort was made by the Supervising Architect's Office to design the buildings of the inspection stations to be compatible with the region in which they were built.

[4] The era of Prohibition begun in 1919 with the Volstead Act and extended nationwide by the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920, resulted in massive bootlegging along the Canada–US border.

In many cases, New York Custom Houses were a mile or so south of the border and travelers were expected to stop in and report their purchases.

[3] Mooers was a part of so-called Rum Trail which made Route 9 the chief path of entry for bootlegged liquor in upstate New York.

[3] The station is associated with three events which converged to make a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history: Prohibition, the Public Buildings Act of 1926 and the mass-production of automobiles.

Simon was unwavering in his defense of what he considered a "conservative-progressive" approach to design in which he saw "art, beauty, symmetry, harmony and rhythm".

The fact that its roof pitch is steeper than its Vermont counterparts suggests the station was adapted to reflect the state's Dutch stylistic heritage.