Similar to the Brimmer Street Terrace development nearby, this set of three rowhouses on Chestnut Street on the Flat of Beacon Hill, is an excellently designed development of residences as a collection rather than individually designed townhomes. The Chestnut Street Rowhouses replaced a stable formerly on the site, and were designed by the architectural firm of Richardson, Barott & Richardson, made up of Philip Richardson, Chauncey Edgar Barott, and Frederic Leopold William Richardson. Philip and Frederic Richardson were sons of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, but they did not reach the same level of notoriety as their late father, and charted their own course. The rowhouses read as a single composition with a unique center section flanked by two matching wings. The center house has a three bay front façade with the first-story clad in limestone which is all recessed and supported by Doric columns.