Three-story Second Empire-style house, with square tower and rounded windows above entranceway. Surrounded by metal fence. Two automobiles in street in foreground. Handwritten on back: "Ducharme, William H., brother of Charles, Ducharme family, 2680 E. Jefferson Ave. showing old French pear trees (2) at front and left of house, May 23, 1923, demolished 1948. See Bulletin of the D. Inst. of Arts, vol. 22, no. 6, March 1943, p. 61 illus., p. 48 text; built 1869 by Mortimer L. Smith, architect."