It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, whose Second Empire styling includes a flared mansard roof and flushboarded siding scored to resemble ashlar stone.

It has a rare example in Cambridge of a curvilinear front gable, in which is an oculus window.

The house was built c. 1865 for William R. Jones, a soap manufacturer, and typifies the houses that were built lining Harvard Street in the 19th century after the Dana estate was subdivided.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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