71 Ralston Avenue is a 2 1/2 story, 2 bay, rectangular plan, Queen Anne-influenced, wood frame, residential building. Constructed c. 1885, the clapboard and wood shingle-clad house features an intersecting gable roof with gabled dormers. Other architectural details include a spindlework post-supported wrap-around porch, a pedimented portico entrance, paired window groupings and scalloped shingles on the second floor. In 1904, the house was owned by A.M. Delaney.