The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, and is subject to a conservation easement held by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

Stone Barn Farm occupies 167 acres (68 ha) of land in north-central Bar Harbor, a rural inland area of the fashionable resort community.

The carriage house a single-story clapboarded structure with a gable roof, and a track-mounted sliding door providing access to its interior.

The stone barn is fashioned out of glacial till, and has a two-leaf board-and-batten door providing access to its interior.

In 1907 Paine's son, Willis,[3] sold the farm to the Shea Brothers masonry firm, who may have built the stone barn as a vehicle to showcase their building skills.