The house is oriented facing south, away from the road and toward a cove that is connected to the island's Southeast Harbor.

It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a central chimney, gambrel roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation.

A second entry was added c. 1960 to the east side in a projecting single-story gambrel-roofed vestibule.

[2] The First Congregational Church of Deer Isle was organized in 1773, and in 1785 offered its first permanent ministerial position to Peter Powers of Newbury, Vermont.

Powers was a prominent Harvard-educated minister who had helped found Dartmouth College in 1769, whose previous parish he had been at odds with over its political leanings toward the British during the recently ended American Revolutionary War.