 The house is a well-preserved example of a local variant of Italianate architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.The Charles Browne House is located southeast of downtown North Adams, on the east side of South Church Street (Massachusetts Route 8A), a short way north of Southview Cemetery and also a short way west of the western portal of the Hoosac Tunnel.It is a two-story wood frame structure, roughly cubic in shape, with a low-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior.