Each side has three windows, and one end has an entry portico below a plain wooden cross.
The cutout children, like the entry portico, function partly as an architectural element and partly as a kind of sign, flashing the museum's identity to the street.
At this time, the original building was stuccoed and an entry portico with Tuscan order columns was added.
It was built for Samuel Whitehorne Jr. in 1811 and the exterior features an elegant hipped roof, entry portico, and a formal garden.
The entry portico, which was added later, is supported by doric pillars.
The entry portico had ten columns.
The entry portico on the main Chambers Street facade (illustration) rises three and a half stories from a low granite curb, supported by four Corinthian columns.
A large marble staircase on the street side of the building leads to a balconied entry portico with corner piers capped by stone finials.
It features an entry portico supported by groupings of three Doric order columns at the two front corners.
The main house is a square, double-pile, central-passage plan house with four rooms on each floor and an entry portico supported by four monumental Doric order columns.