The house's design features a hipped roof with two chimneys, wide eaves, and a denticulated cornice with many brackets.

[2] The house was built for Richard Henderson Beamer, a prominent resident whom The Sacramento Union described as "Woodland's chief citizen".

The onetime mayor of Woodland, Beamer also held many other political offices at the state and county level.

In addition, Beamer helped establish the Woodland Public Library and planted the trees in the surrounding park himself.

This article about a property in Yolo County, California on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.