Collyer would later become the Chief of the Pawtucket Fire Department in 1874 and died in 1884 from injuries sustained in the line of duty.

[4] The house was moved 400 feet (120 m) from its original location in 1962 due to the construction of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island.

The NRHP nomination states that it could have been a 1+1⁄2-story gabled roof cottage with a cross-gable in the center, a style popular during the mid-century in Pawtucket.

[3] The house has an unconventional floor plan which has two doorways on opposite ends of the original cottage with the main entrance formerly on the east side.

The NRHP nomination states that the alterations and remodeling of the home have produced a "most unusually composed and picturesquely detailed [building].