Its interior, now much altered, serves as a function space for a community organization dedicated to its preservation.

Its main façade faces north toward Hawthorne Road, and is five bays wide, with an elaborate center entrance that has flanking sidelight windows and pilasters, and is topped by a wide Federal-period fan.

The interior is reflective of the building's later 19th-century uses as a dance school, tavern, and church, and consists of three large rooms.

Manning eventually moved back to Salem, Massachusetts, and the house was converted into a tavern.

[2] The house has been owned by the Hawthorne Community Association, a local group dedicated to the building's preservation.