The property is about 10 acres (4.0 ha) in size, and includes three historic buildings and a family graveyard in which Edward Eggleston is buried.

The main house, known as "The Homestead", is a two-story clapboarded frame structure with a hip roof, which was built in 1879 for Eggleston's daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Elwin Seelye.

It is connected by a breezeway to "Mellowstone", another stone structure built in 1883 to serve as Eggleston's library.

[3] Eggleston first summered in the Lake George area in about 1875, and this property became his only permanent address after the Seelyes developed it in the late 1870s.

He lived here during most of the year except for the winter months, which were typically spent in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Madison, Indiana.