The Quackenbush Home is vernacular Victorian in style with it's nice cross gabled roof, saw tooth gable infill bead-board and wide front porch. In 2001, Whit Rylee of Urvana carried out extensive foundation and structural work, replaced the windows with period-relevant 2/2 double hung sash windows, and rebuilt the porch which had been heavily altered. Not knowing exactly what the front porch originally looked like, they installed chamfered porch posts and railings with simple square balusters.

The Quackenbush family has long roots on Chicken Hill. They lived in other homes on the hill before moving into this home 70 years ago. Ruby Quakenbush-Carver, as a baby, would try to crawl back up the hill to her former home. Her husband Fred grew up on the hill and, as a child, convinced the Guthrie children who lived across the street in the "Parsonage" that their home was haunted by the pastor’s daughter whom Fred said had died upstairs in the house. She had died, but at the hospital. The Guthries still believe the house is haunted.