He purchased it in 1904 and sold it to George and William Dempsey in 1923. From that time, the building operated as the well-known Dempsey Brothers Hardware store and was owned by a member of the Dempsey family until the late 1980s. Architecturally, the Dempsey store is a unique example of a rural mid-19th century building constructed in the Georgian Survival style with NeoClassical influences. Its recent restoration has reintroduced those picturesque architectural elements that were added to the exterior of the building during the closing decades of the 19th century. The high pitch of the gabled roof is characteristically Georgian, but the compounded wooden eaves, cornice returns and extended overhang at the sides of the structure are details more characteristic of NeoClassic buildings.
Most windows have stone sills.
The window configuration of the ground floor has been reconstructed to reflect the building s original storefront appearance. Situated at the south-east corner of the building, the storefront is symmetrical within its own configuration. A third identical window having the same 9-light arrangement exists at the return of the storefront on the south elevation. The storefront windows are also flanked by full-height, wooden pilasters. Also rebuilt on this facade, is the separate ground floor entrance denoting the original residential component of the store.