It has a tiled hip roof with wide eaves supported by brackets, and there are projecting window bays.

It featured a music studio which was "so ingeniously constructed that one can play on the piano and still not be heard in other portions of the house".

[6] The house was well known in music circles and was featured in advertisements for Steinway Pianos' including in the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, Season 57, 1937-1938.

Dai Buell famously held annual May Day celebrations at the "Aloha Bungalow" at 145 Warren Street, Newton Centre, which according to a local newspaper [7] she would keep open house and arrange a program of dancing and music lasting well into the evening.

[9] Controversy would arise due to the building of new houses by public transit, as 145 Warren Street is near Newton Centre station.