This house once stood in a pastoral setting overlooking the Baraboo Bluffs and Baraboo Valley. Tuttle built his house in Gothic Revival, considered at the time an ideal style for rural estates, using characteristic board-and-batten walls. Small wooden finials and bargeboards pierced by diamonds, ovals, and stars accentuate the eaves of the steeply pitched, cross-gabled roof. Paired wooden columns and foliated wooden pendants embellish the full-width front porch. The building’s lines are emphatically angular, evident in such details too as the diamond-shaped louvered vents, triangular hoods above the second-story windows, and zigzag moldings underneath. A two-stall privy in the side yard mimics the design of the house. From 1860 until 1905, the Tuttle family operated the Baraboo Valley Nursery on the grounds of the estate.