This two-story masonry octagon has a single-story rectangular addition to the south and a shed-roofed porch wrapping six sides. The stuccoed walls rise to a truncated polygonal cap with a central brick chimney. Windows are tall and narrow, with boxed eaves. Round porch posts appear to be alternating smooth and rough-faced sections of cast concrete rising from a solid balustrade. Although lacking the observation cupola that is an element of other octagon houses, this is a vernacular example of the romantic house type popularized by New York lecturer and writer Orson S. Fowler beginning in 1849.