 The roof is pierced by pedimented gable dormers in a classic Second Empire style, and by a circular chimney.The house was built on land long owned by the Bowers family, but was subdivided for development around 1850.It was built in 1872 by Jonathan Bowers, a local industrialist who owned a sawmill and a granite quarry, as well as an amusement park in nearby Tyngsborough.