Built about 1859 for the scion of a locally prominent family, it is one of the town's best-preserved examples of Italianate architecture.

[1] The Robert S. Davis House is located in a residential area between Brookline Village and the town high school, at the southeast corner of Stanton and Greenough Streets.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof, twin interior chimneys, and a cupola.

It has well-preserved Italianate styling, including corner quoins, deep eaves with dentil moulding and paired brackets, heavily capped windows on the first floor, and a central gable on the main facade.

It is particularly rare as a well-preserved example of the classic Italianate box-like house with a central gable; most of the town's other Italianate houses outside this grouping are L-shaped in layout.