 Among its buildings are examples of the Greek Revival and Colonial Revival styles of architecture, and it includes work by landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin.The center is a surviving part of a estate owned by Frank Black, whose father had emigrated from Ramelton in County Donegal, Ireland.The main barn was built in 1850 and remodeled in 1929; it was destroyed and rebuilt after fires in 1932 and 1937.