The house is significant for its being one of the best examples in Des Moines of the attic balcony gable subtype of the Stick Style.

This 2½-story frame structure shows its Stick Style influence with a hip and gabled roof, decorative trussed attic balconies that are supported by large decorative brackets, wide bracketed overhanging eaves, and wood clapboard walls with decorative patterns of horizontal boards.

The property also contains a barn from the same time period, but it has been significantly altered over the years and now serves as a garage.

[1] The Reverend Richard W. Keeler was a Methodist minister who founded several congregations in Iowa.

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