The front facade features a one-story diastyle Doric order portico with a triangular pediment supported by two fluted columns and two plain pilasters.

It also has a one-story tetrastyle portico added across the south end in 1905.

During the American Civil War, General John J. Peck and his staff maintained Union Army staff headquarters in the house.

Riddick's Folly is open as a historic house museum.

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