The rowhouse and palisade fence were reconstructed and opened up as a living history museum in 1970.
The neighborhood has an urban fabric with rowhouses.
As with most rowhouses, the homes typically have mansard roofs with dormers which provide third-floor sleeping, working, or storage space.
Each rowhouse is two stories in height, two bays wide, of brick construction and capped with an asymmetrical side-gabled roof.
It is a primarily residential area characterized by 19th century rowhouses.
There are also smaller numbers of semi-detached, rowhouses, and apartment buildings.
It was built in 1767, and is a 3 1/2-story, three bay brick rowhouse.
The district's residential areas are mostly one-story rowhouses.
