The main block is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior, to which an older Cape-style frame house is attached to the rear as an ell.

The main block exhibits quality Federal woodwork, including an elaborate front entry with pilasters and sidelight windows beneath a half-round transom and gabled pediment.

The interior of the main block retains original Federal period woodwork, while the rear ell reflects late 19th-century alterations.

About 1795, he built a wood-frame cabin on this site, which was enlarged c. 1799 to the Cape frame seen as the ell today.

His home was also where early town meetings (of what was then Montpelier) took place until 1828, when they were moved to the nearby Methodist church.