The large, rambling house combines motifs of the New England Cape Cod mode and the log cabin in a well-crafted “rustic” style. Like many residences in the Sandhills resort communities, it has a very large living and dining area opening to terraces. It was built as a year-round vacation home for Mr. and Mrs. John Bross Lloyd and was part of an estate developed around horseback riding. There were other houses in Pinehurst planned by Dixon. Stiles Dixon’s brother, Frederick S. Dixon, was a managing partner in the contracting firm of Reinecke and Dixon, which had a regional clientele. See Claudia Roberts (Brown), “Lloyd-Howe House”, National Register of Historic Places nomination, 1983.