It is also one of a small number of surviving farm properties in the town, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The farm complex is located near the road junction, containing a main house, barn, and other smaller outbuildings.

Only the lands immediately north and east of the complex are open fields; the balance of the property is wooded.

[2] When Maurice Downes, a native of Wilmot, New Hampshire, purchased this property in 1913, it included the house and three 19th-century English barns.

Downes was educated in agricultural practices at the University of New Hampshire, and introduced the high-producing Holstein cow to the area for dairy production; it is now the dominant milk-producing breed in the region.