It features a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico that occupies the center bays of the north elevation.

The property includes extensive gardens designed by noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette.

The house was originally built for Abram L. McClellan a wealthy business man and real estate developer.

[3] The house was originally named “Pinehurst” but was renamed “Westbourne” in 1938 by the second owner, Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biographer and onetime editor of the former Richmond News Leader.

Freeman hired Virginia landscape architect, Charles F. Gillette, to design the grounds, however the gardens no longer exist as much of the property has since been subdivided.