Designed by Architect John Batschy in 1893, 1200 Park Place is one of the unique Queen Anne homes in Quincy. The house is located on the corner of Twelfth Street and Park Place and acts as an entryway into the neighborhood. Compositionally, the house consists of a large hip roof with lower projecting hips and cross gables forming an L-shaped footprint, creating a picturesque composition. Tucked into the crook of the "L" is the focal point of the house, the attached circular turret with convex mansard roof and finial. Below the turret is a wrap-around porch or veranda which ties the facade together.

Another distinguishing feature on the front facade of this house is the unusual round window of the first floor parlor. Examples of this type of window are very rare in the Midwest and even in this country. The large plate glass arrangement is reminiscent of many omega arches seen in historical revivals of an earlier period. Another possible precedent is the rising popularity of the art nouveau coming into popularity in Europe in the same era.

The house is constructed of a red brick tightly laid in an American running bond. The upper cable is wood framed and clad with wood shingles. Centered in the third story gable is a small Palladian window. More masonry details to notice in this Queen Anne that allude to its shingle and stick style ancestors are a patterned masonry chimney, brick corbeling on the turret and a rusticated limestone belt-course that serves as a lintel to the second-story transom windows.

Overall, the house is in excellent overall condition with the exception of the missing spindle work on the wrap-around porch which has been replaced with prefabricated wrought iron posts.

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