It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a truncated hip roof, clapboarded exterior, and granite foundation.

It has fluted corner pilasters with composite capitals rising to an encircling entablature, and a gabled entry projecting at the enter of the main facade.

The main entrance is a double-leaf door, flanked by narrow boards and topped by a bracketed entablature with modillions.

[2] Seth Low was an educator and politician best known as president of Columbia University and as Mayor of New York City.

It was designed by Ernest Greene, an architect from New York City with ties to Wakefield, and is one of the town's finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture.