The main house is a single story wood-frame structure, consisting of two equal-sized gabled sections set parallel to each other and joined by a cross-gabled hyphen.

The structure is oriented facing southwest, about 100 feet (30 m) from the shore, with views over grasses and low blueberry bushes to the Gulf of Maine and the Schoodic Peninsula.

A low picket fence creates a courtyard between the wings east of the hyphen, and a wide deck extends across the western facade.

[2] Windswept was built sometime between 1928 and 1934 by G. Horton Glover of Florida, and was part of an ultimately unsuccessful effort to develop Petit Manan Point as a summer destination.

Mary Ellen Chase, a Maine native who was then a professor at Smith College and already a well-known regional writer, rented the cottage in 1940, and purchased it the following year.