[1][2] The Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber frame farm house has a one and one-half story ell added in 1800.

[4] On December 7, 1696 the Farm Highway, present-day Nichols Avenue Connecticut Route 108, was laid out by the Stratford selectmen to the south side of Mischa Hill.

[5] The highway was 12 rods wide, or 198 feet, where Broadbridge Brook runs off the south side of Mischa Hill, at Zachariah Curtiss, his land, and at Captain's Farm.

One parcel contained 20 acres (0.081 km2) with a dwelling house and was on the west side of the Farm highway and was bounded west on Daniel Hawley (Ephraim Hawley's son), south on Joseph Curtiss, north on Fairchild land and east on the Farm highway.

The other parcel was on the east side of the Farm highway and contained 32 acres (0.13 km2) of land and a barn and was bounded west with the Farm highway and part west on Benjamin Beach, Ephraim and Joseph Curtiss, part south on Captain John Hawley (Ephraim Hawley's brother), east with Benjamin Beach and north on Joseph Curtiss,[9] In 1746, Zachariah II left his house, the old barn and whole homestead to his only son Mitchell when he died.