The main house was built about 1847–1848, and is a two-story, five-bay, hipped-roof frame building with a three-bay north wing.

It has a two-story, pedimented front portico in the Colonial Revival style addition.

Sam Black's Tavern is a one-story, two-room, gable-roofed log house with a center chimney and shed-roofed porch.

The ice house on the land, typically framed in an octagonal shape, in fact only has six sides.

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