It was built in 1801, and is a small one-story, frame building with a gable roof and low brick foundation.

It has a brick exterior end chimney and a small one-story wing added in 1865.

The building housed the law office of jurist Frederick Nash (1781-1858).

Following his death it housed a school and was purchased by the Hillsborough Historical Society in 1970.

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