Queen Anne style house with front gables; spindlework on porch and balcony railings; chimneys with patterned masonry. Handwritten on back: "617 Cass Ave. (at Davenport St.), ca. 1882." Label on back: "1882, this house was built by Pulaski A. Billings soon after he and Lucy A. Ayres were married, 1879. 617 Cass Avenue at head of Davenport Av. Daughter, Edna Ayres Billings (now Mrs. Chester J. Morse) was born here."