Only a couple of brackets and a small section of balustrade remained of the decorative trim when Mr. Taylor began work, and he has taken great care in replicating missing millwork, guided by extant pieces and old photos of the home still in the Newell family. A shed roofed back porch nestled behind the rear wings echoes the front porch proportions with simpler trim. One enters the home through an elaborate machine made Victorian front door, probably ordered by Mr. Newell from a catalog or a Charlotte planing mill. The current stained glass windows in the entry are more elaborate than the frosted glass believed to have been there originally. All rooms of the house have heavy window surrounds and mop boards with molding, and there is picture molding near the ceiling in several rooms.
Interior walls are thick because they are constructed of brick rather than frame.
Each room has a fireplace with a wooden mantel and a stuccoed brick firebox. Once inside the front door, one is in the long central hallway that extends through the building. Through a door to the left is the hall. It has a fine mantel with parallel fluting on its flat surfaces in the Eastlake manner, plus sawtooth dentil molding. Off the central hallway to the right of the front door is the parlor.