Built circa 1850, this Italianate and Classical Revival-style house was once the home of the Baker family, and was renovated to its present appearance with the addition of the present front porch and doorways circa 1905 when the house was the home of Henry Lakin Parr, who founded the Parr Shoals Water Power Company, which provided hydroelectric power from the Broad River to Newberry County. The grounds of the house also features two one-story red-brick former slave dwellings to the rear of the house, which were built for a previous house that stood on the site circa 1825. The mansion features a hipped roof, a hipped rooftop belvedere, bracketed eaves, six-over-six double-hung windows, doors at the central bays of the front facade with decorative trim surrounds, sidelights, and transoms, a two-story front portico with rectilinear ionic columns and a second-story porch, hipped side wings, and two painted brick chimneys. The house is a contributing structure in the Main Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.