
Sited on a quarter city block, the Astin House is a fine Colonial Revival two-story, center-hall, wooden house. The front porch is carried on two pairs of monumental Ionic columns, and the corners of the house are marked with Ionic pilasters. Large flat-roofed dormers are centered on each side of the pyramidal roof. A single-story porch on small Ionic columns stands behind the monumental columns and continues on the east side as a porch and the west side as a porte-cochere. The site retains its original iron fence with brick piers. A stable and servants quarters stand at the rear of the property, making this an unusually complete ensemble of period structures. Astin was a real estate speculator and developer, obviously a lucrative business in early-twentieth-century Stamford.