The Old Presbyterian parsonage is one of the best documented houses in Roslyn.The Roslyn News for August 13, 1887, advised that “The contract for building the Presbyterian parsonage was awarded to Stephen Speedling of this village and ground will be broken next week”. The original Presbyterian Church, circa 1850, for whose minister the parsonage was built, still stands at 33 East Broadway,although the building now serves as a home.

The house itself is a 2-story, double-pitched roof house of a highly inventive type.According to Mr. Speedling, the original roof was surfaced with tin, probably with standing seams. In the manner of its time the roof is steeply pitched, and the horizontal eaves are all trimmed with simple, single-drop brackets. The roof over the attic bay window is flat, a highly unusual characteristic which can be seen only from the south.

The house includes a full cellar, and like other Roslyn houses of its period, the foundation walls are constructed entirely of brick laid in American Bond which extends all the way up to the sills. The front door is original and has always contained glass in its upper part. The stairway in the entrance hall, unlike most local stairways is curved. It employs turned balusters which differ from the usually encountered “vase-turned”. All the bedrooms are trimmed in the same manner and retain their plain, bull-nosed capped baseboards. The second story still retains its original flooring in all but one bedroom. Apart from minor changes, the interior of the house has survived with remarkably little alteration.