Arcadius Steinle purchased the lot from Henri Castro in 1847 and built the home. A carpenter by trade, Steinle built much of the furniture and  woodwork in the home, including a wardrobe that remained, as noted in 1968 (Castroville’s Historical Heritage book).

After Steinle died, his brother emigrated from Germany and eventually married Steinle’s widow. The home stayed in the family until 1946

The Arcadius-Steinle house is a symmetrical, five-bay home with a centered front door. The windows are double-hung and framed by shutters. The front door is capped with a transom window. It has a side-gabled, metal, standing seam roof with a chimney on its peak on one side.

The home is supported by a thick, stone mass wall and stuccoed. The oldest part of the home is 1.5 stories with an original wooden stair from the living room to the attic. The centered attic window on one face is a casement window with a significant splay. The two attic windows on the other face have four panes and a single shutter. The window on the first floor of this facade is centered. The difference in window type suggests that both attic facades once had a singular, centered window.

The first floor of this volume also supports a bedroom. The later additions transformed the plan from rectangular to L-shaped and are built lower than the original volume. The likely first addition is occupied by a dining room and the later section services a kitchen, bathroom and wooden shower, circular in shape.

The kitchen’s exterior is vertical, wood, board and batten on one side and horizontal on the other. It has a small square window over the sink and Its metal, standing seam roof is also gabled and lower than the front volume. Parallel to the living room and perpendicular to the dining room is a porch facing the backyard. 

The backyard hosts a large barn that is capped with a gabled, metal standing seam room and three-bay porch. A shed, a well and a swinging wooden bench also exist on the property.