Richmond was constructed in three distinct stages to create one of the most unusual houses in Natchez. The central section may date to 1784 and was a one-and-a-half-story frame side-gabled house on a raised brick basement. Around 1820, double-tiered galleries with wood columns were added to both front and rear. In 1832, Levin R. and Sarah Marshall acquired the property and subsequently made major Greek Revival additions to each gable end. The c. 1840 western addition, along with the Commercial Bank and Banker’s House (ND34) where Marshall was president, are the city’s most sophisticated Greek Revival buildings. They have no regional characteristics. The west (front) addition of wood rusticated to resemble stone features a center-bay Ionic portico with the entrance door set between Corinthian columns. Flanking the portico are floor-length windows with individual iron balconies. Inside, the oculus of a saucer dome lights the central stair hall with its elliptical staircase. In the double parlors, Ionic pilasters frame the windows and divide the parlor walls into panels, supporting a plaster entablature.
The east addition consists of a two-story, five-bay brick building with a single-pile plan of three rooms with simple millwork. The Marshalls’ descendants have preserved Richmond’s interior nineteenth-century decorative arts and open the house to visitors annually.