It features an original recessed second-story verandah, an interior structural arcade, and a semidetached office wing.

It is the only surviving dwelling built by one of the original University of Virginia faculty members approved by Thomas Jefferson.

Its owner, John Patten Emmet, was the school's first professor of natural history.

[3][4] It is now owned by the University of Virginia and serves as the co-residence for both the Principal and the Director of Studies of the International Residential College.

[1] This article about a property in Charlottesville, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.