Built in 1917, this imposing brick Colonial Revival house was built for textile pioneer Mr. Robert Lee Stowe and his wife Nellie Rhyne.
The architectural description reads as such: the truncated hip slate roof is crowned by a balustrade, and flanked by projecting side gabled wings, whose pedimented ends contain fanlights. The wide elliptical arched entrance contains leaded glass sidelights and fanlight, and is sheltered by a one-story central bay portico with a flat roof encircled by a balustrade, and supported by ionic columns. The ionic columns of the portico are carried to the porte-cochere on the north side. Above the dentil cornice rises a central-bay gabled dormer containing a gracefully detailed Palladian window. To the south is an enclosed sun porch.
The large entrance hall features paneled wainscoting and Doric-columned partitions. It is dominated by a central staircase that doubles back to a large second floor central hallway. Numerous mantels carry out the Colonial Revival style detailing the exterior.
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