Randall was employed as an itinerant carpenter, and worked on projects in Chicago and St. Louis and other places.

[2] William Randall died in 1882, and his land passed to his oldest son, Henry, and his wife Harriet.

[2] The Randall House is a two-story balloon frame octagon topped with a cupola, with a one-story rectangular-shaped gable-roof wing on one side.

The main floor contains a kitchen and attached pantry, a library since converted into a bathroom, and two parlors.

In the center of the house, a circular stair leads to the second floor, where the bedrooms are located, and to the cupola above.