Prospect shows off Notman's mastery of the Italianate Revival style and his special aptitude for designing suburban and rural residences for the mid-Atlantic gentry. (An earlier and influential similar Notman villa was the Bishop Doane residence in Burlington, New Jersey.) The floor plans and elevations for Prospect offered a sharp contrast to the rigidly symmetrical, Greek Revival style dominant in the domestic architecture of the time. The rooms in Prospect were not marshaled into rows of neat rectangles; rather, many of them were offset and irregularly shaped. The interior of Prospect was both open and light, with the many connecting doors offering excellent circulation and flow.