This landmarked home is a one and a half story Craftsman style home with a stone foundation, a basement, and a gabled roof. The home features double-hung windows, a Dutch door, a second floor front dormer, a living room bay window, and a front porch with original, neoclassical columns. Other features include wood siding, stone piers, wooden and aluminum storm windows, and asphalt shingles.

The Craftsman Style was popularized by national design plan books in the early 1900s. 4721 Highland Avenue bears strong resemblance to design number 6011 in the Radford’s Artistic Homes 1908 publication. The house is also similar to number 136 in the Gordon Van-Tine Book of Building Plans from 1913.

The home has had a series of owners starting with Robert J. Darnley and family. The current occupants are the applicants, Ted and Andrea Anderson. Their daughter Muriel Anderson is an American fingerstyle guitarist and harp guitarist who plays in many genres. She is the first woman to win the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship

For more information, see the Village of Downers Grove Landmarking Resolution for this house.