One-story one-room cabin with square-hewn logs and half dovetail corner notches. Front and rear doors and tiny window beside the chimney and in attic were the only original openings. Access to the front shed porch was originally by steps at the center bay. At that time the house faced the main road from Mobile to DeSoto and Enterprise, which ran along the top of the hill in front of the house.

This property was purchased by John Adams, Miss McRae's great-grandfather, in 1845, and the family lived in an earlier log cabin until this one was completed. Adams burned his own bricks across the creek in front of the house in a clay pit.

The historical significance of this property is attributed to its continuous ownership by the same family since 1845, and its connection with the old ridge road that ran in front of the house, linking Mobile, DeSoto, and Enterprise. The Adams-Taylor-McRae house is architecturally significant as one of six of the county's antebellum folk structures. It is the single example in this group of the one-room log cabin type. Stylistic features include half-dovetail corner notches, the original L small shuttered windows, and the three foot projection of the roof at the gable end to protect the chimney. In addition, there are two remaining log outbuildings on the property, a cotton house and corncrib, that are the only structures of this type in the county still associated with the original dwelling.- NRHP, 30 October 1979