The Colonial Revival style home features four wooden columns outside which are each four feet in diameter and extend from the ground floor through to the second floor and actively support the third floor as well as the full balcony on the second floor. The porte cochère additionally supports a side balcony. Original architectural elements inside the house also include 14 foot ceilings on both the first and second floor, two smaller, more ornate columns supporting an ornately carved beam which supports the second floor and large pocket doors which enclosed both the dining rooms. The floors are old-growth, edge-grained, long leaf pine. The house also features three fireplaces on the ground floor which all feed into the central chimney, providing warmth to all three floors. The asymmetrical front with the porte cochère, the large columns in the exterior and the large central hall are additionally associated with the Queen Anne style of architecture.
The original layout of the second floor of the home had four bedrooms upstairs with two baths and a kitchen in the central hallway. The downstairs had one bedroom, dining room, living room, den and three baths. The kitchen had a walk-in pantry, wood stove and a staircase going to several storage rooms and the third-floor attic. All three floors are the same size, bringing the total house size to approximately 9,000 square feet.
During World War II, the upper part of the home was rented to college students; the family lived in half of the downstairs and rented the other half to a young married couple.
In 1938, “Ned” McGehee married Augusta Louise Tucker of Ponchatoula. They had three children; Gurley Tucker McGehee (Maurin), Edward Larned McGehee IV, and Rosamond Louise McGehee (Lopez). As the children grew, the family reclaimed the second-floor bedrooms and turned the second-floor kitchen into a playroom.