163 Ralston Avenue is a 2 1/2 story, 2 bay, rectangular plan, Queen Anne-influenced, wood frame, residential building. Constructed c. 1890, the clapboard-clad house has a gambrel roof with cross gable, a round corner tower with slate-clad conical cap, and a Doric columns-supported, full front porch, which is now enclosed. In 1904, the house was owned by Caroline Deckert.