Built c. 1880, this modest Victorian wood-frame house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972, as the only surviving structure associated with the life of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), whose summer home it was from 1909 until his death.

Its exterior is sheathed in wooden clapboards, with shingles in the front-facing gable end and on the sides of a shed-roof dormer.

[3] The house was built between 1875 and 1880 by Asa Obear Marshall, and was sold by his widow to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1909.

The Holmeses divided their time between this house and a residence in Washington, D.C., generally staying here between June and October.

While here, Holmes would continue to work on cases, and would entertain judges and politicians, including Louis Brandeis, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Albert Beveridge.