The subject property is located on the southeast corner of Highland Avenue and 29th Street, and consists of a 1,432 square-foot, two-story duplex built in a Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style. The duplex was built in 1932 by well-known and reputable City builders, the Daughtery brothers, in an architectural style characteristic of the City's early history, and is one of the few remaining Spanish Colonial Revival homes in the City with good integrity.

At the request of the property owner, on September 26, 2018, the Planning Commission recommended approval to the City Council to designate the property as a Historic Landmark, as it embodies distinctive characteristics of a style, type, period, or method of construction. On March 19, 2019, the Historic Landmark Designation and Mills Act Contract were presented to City Council for consideration. At that meeting, the City Council approved the designation of 2820 Highland Avenue as the City's first local Historic Landmark and approved a Mills Act Contract between the property owner and the City. The Mills Act Contract provides for a property tax reduction in exchange for the property's maintenance and upgrade as a historic property.