The interior has a central hall plan, with a combination of Italianate and Colonial Revival features, dating either to the period of construction or an early 20th-century renovation.

[2] The house was built in 1867 by Redfield Proctor, then a well-off lawyer and businessman, in what was then a fashionable residential area on the city's outskirts.

[2] Proctor was instrumental in the establishment by merger of the Vermont Marble Company, and it was through his efforts that Sutherland Falls was set off from Rutland as the town of Proctor, and that West Rutland, another major marble quarry area, was also separated from the city.

Proctor served as Governor of Vermont (as did two of his sons), and as United States Secretary of War under President Benjamin Harrison.

[2] The house remained in Proctor's ownership until his death in 1909, and was then owned by the locally prominent Clement family.