Built for merchant Pickering Dodge around 1802, the Federal-style Dodge-Barstow-West House, at 25 Chestnut Street in Salem, was later owned by the Barstow family and was purchased in 1895 by George S. West. A photograph by Frank Cousins of the house’s doorway was featured in The Architectural Record (vol. XLII, no. V, 1917), with the following description by Phil M. Riley:

The half-oval porch of the George West house, 25 Chestnut street, presents a distinctly pleasing type for modern adaptation. The proportions are excellent, the detail simple and carefully spaced. The paneled door with its graceful welcoming sidelights and fanlight is broad and typical of the best in Salem. The steps are of granite, with an extremely fine wrought-iron railing.