The master plan for a new planned neighborhood, occupying the highest land in New York City, looked to the planned suburbs of the early 20th century, especially the adjacent Fieldston neighborhood, as well as contemporary New Urbanist communities. Houses were located to balance community and privacy, and to capture sweeping views south to the Manhattan skyline and north across Van Cortlandt Park to the Hudson River Valley. To ensure variety for the five houses, the plan gave each its own distinctive character rooted in the set of historicist architectural styles that came to typify the better American suburbs of the early 20th century, perhaps most eloquently expressed by influential architects such as Dwight James Baum right next door in Fieldston.

This 11,000-square-foot house is inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement, and by its leading practitioners such as the English architects Richard Norman Shaw and C.F.A. Voysey. With brick trimmed with stone on the first floor, stucco trimmed with brick and half-timbering above, and a Ludowici clay-tiled roof, the house presents a rustic, hand-hewn aspect appropriate to its hilltop site. The ground floor accommodates a living room, a formal dining room, a library, and a kitchen that opens to a family room; French doors open the family room to a bluestone-paved porch and a private lawn. The primary bedroom suite includes a sitting room with a fireplace, two walk-in closets, and a well-appointed bath. The second and third floors offer five additional bedrooms. The three-car garage wing accommodates a cabana facing the pool terrace.