517 Centre Street is a 3 1/2 story, 5 bay, rectangular plan, Colonial Revival-influenced, wood frame and brick, residential building. Built c. 1900, the brick and wood shingle-clad house is dominated by an overhanging, bracket-supported, front-facing, gambrel roof with a Palladian window in the apex. Above the elaborate clam shell door surround is a semi-hexagonal oriel window flanked by multiple window groupings with diamond-paned upper sash. The brick facade is composed in a Flemish bond pattern with darkened headers. This house was one of the speculative houses built by Thomas S. Kingman. In the 1920s, it was owned by Cornelius C. Beekman, a New York city lawyer.