 The sills and lintels are made of stone, with cross and scroll patterns worked into the brick.An oriel window projects from the cross-gable on the west facade.In 1867, the earliest known map showing Nelsonville, at the time the growing home of workers at the West Point Foundry in nearby Cold Spring, depicts the store at the spot with James Y. Dykman's name attached to it, suggesting it had been there for quite some time.