Tin plate magnate George Greer and his wife, Alice White Greer, employed New Castle's best-known architectural firm to design their nineteen-room frame house. They chose a site near other fashionable houses, well above the industrial flats to the southwest along the Shenango River. Ironically, the house built by the owner of a tin plate factory was donated to the Lawrence County Historical Society sixty years later by its then owner Joseph Clavelli, who at one time had been a tin plate worker. The house's proportions, horizontal massing, clustered one-story Corinthian columns supporting the full-facade porch, and attic-story windows suggest the Colonial Revival style. The leaded and stained glass was produced by the H. C. Fry Glass Company of Beaver County.