It was designed by local architect Fred L. Savage and built in 1895, and is a particularly opulent example of Colonial Revival architecture.

It is a large frame house 2+1⁄2 stories in front and 3+1⁄2 in back, with a complex hip roof, three brick chimneys, wooden shingle siding, and a granite foundation.

The main facade faces west (away from the water), and is five bays wide, with projecting portico-like sections at both ends.

Both are topped by recessed balconies, and are supported by paired large square columns.

The property was one of a modest number of Bar Harbor's estate houses to survive a devastating 1947 wildfire ravaged the eastern half of Mount Desert Island.