Built in 1907, it is a distinctive design of the architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor, featuring some of his signature elements.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a dormered gable roof, and an exterior finished in stucco and wooden shingles.

A fieldstone chimney rises on the front facade, near the junction between the original main block and the ell.

[2] The house was built in 1907 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a New York City-based architect who spent many summers in Norfolk.

[3] This house exhibits a number of signature Taylor elements, including windows with small panes in both square and diamond configurations, the half-round window in the end of the gambrel gable, and the position of the entrance at the crook of the ell.