The Newton-Allaire house is a two-story red brick Italianate residence, built in 1871 by Archibald P. Newton. It stands on a large site, located south of Lake Huron, west of the Cheboygan River, and in close proximity to downtown Main Street of Cheboygan. It is landscaped with large trees, shrubbery, and side and back gardens.

Alterations to the home’s exterior are limited to the sensitive replacement of the front, wrap-around porch and the addition to the back façade of a connected two-car garage where a woodshed once stood. The front façade of the house faces east. Three bays wide and two stories high, the symmetrical façade is ornamented with typical Italianate detailing.

The interior of the Newton-Allaire home remains almost fully intact. At the first floor level, a front entryway stands in the middle bay and presents double doors fitted with colored glass windows, capped by a rounded arch transom. In the middle and right bays of the first floor level as well as in the three bays of the second story, rounded arch one-over-one double hung sash detailed with brick lintels and painted stone keystones create a balanced fenestration. An elegant stair hall, a sitting room, the dining room, and a modernized kitchen run from east to west along the south side of the first floor level. Along the north side, a front parlor, a back parlor, east to west. A variety of painted and unpainted wood details, cornice and ceiling plasterwork, and molded window and door enframements accent the first floor’s rooms. The second story can be reached both by the front stairway and by a back stairs located toward the southwest corner of the home. Three large bedrooms and a the stairway leading to the belvedere are located off a center hall in the front half of the home; a center back hall opens onto five smaller bedrooms and the back stairway. Hardwood floors, simple plaster walls and ceilings, and wood baseboards and chair rails are seen throughout the second floor level. The large bedrooms are fitted with unusual faucets that once brought rainwater down from an attic copper cistern that collected the water. A cupola on the roof allowed for viewing the traffic on the Cheboygan River. However, over time the growth of trees have blocked that view.