It is a large two-story Bungalow style house, designed by Dudley St. Clair Donnelly and built in 1908 by financier Morton Freeman Plant, and is one of the only early 20th-century purpose-built hunting lodges in the state.

[1] The Morton Freeman Plant Hunting Lodge is located in an isolated rural setting in western East Lyme.

The lodge is a 1-1/2 story frame structure with a broad hip roof that creates an overhanging porch in the front, supported by stone piers.

The interior of the building retains original finishes, including two concrete fireplaces built to resemble those found in 16th-century European manor houses.

The lodge was built in 1908 to a design by Dudley St. Clair Donnelly, a regionally prominent architect who executed a number of commissions for Plant.