[1] The Gothic House is located in Portland's West End neighborhood, on the north side of Spring Street, a short way east of the Western Cemetery.

[2] The house is a two-story wood-frame structure with a hip roof, wooden siding that resembles rusticated stone, and a modern concrete foundation.

Topped by a steeply-pitched gable, that section has a two-pointed Gothic arched window on the second level and the entrance, sheltered by a Gothic-detailed porch on the first.

It is believed to be Rowe's first commission in the state,[3] and is described in city promotional materials as the finest example of Gothic Revival architecture in Maine.

[3] A bronze and brass Gothic chandelier that once hung in the house's parlor was on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from April to September 1970.