Designed by the Boston architect Francis W. Chandler in the Tudor Revival style of architecture, it was built in 1899 for Dana Estes, one of the developers responsible for the extension of Commonwealth Avenue to Auburndale.

On September 4, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

[1] It is a 3+1⁄2-story wood-frame building with fieldstone on the ground floor, and a half-timbered stucco finish above.

The wall surfaces are in places embellished by decorative mastic elements.

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