with frieze and pediment
- square piers and engaged pilasters of the entrance portico
- pilasters at the corners of the front and side elevations
- brick tympanum at the south and north ends under the low gable roof
- fascia that continues around the entire building
- 6 over 6 sash windows
- wood window sills
- brick lintels over all windows and door
- low gable roof
- brick chimney with two flues set at opposite angles to the single base
- siting on Highway 54 as the entrance to the Ruthven estate
- remains of the original stone wall marking the estate entrance
- original gateposts located on the estate road
- location near fields and woodlands at the east edge of the estate
- ghost town of Indiana (now only a cemetery)
- mature walnut tree directly in front of the gatehouse as a remnant of earlier plantings