This rectangular two-story house has an open gable roof and flared eaves has a stucco exterior finish and poured concrete foundation. It was built by William McElwee Sr. around 1913. There is a one-story enclosed front porch with a flat roof and a rear two-story wing with second-story sleeping porch and first-story screened porch. On the south elevation there is a raised two-and-a-half story bay window surmounted by a gable-roofed dormer. Windows are one-over-one and two-over-two double-hung sash.
The second floor was remodeled into an apartment and the woodshed into a bedroom in 1949. The kitchen has been remodeled and a sauna and bocce court added since 1965.
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