[1] The Winter House is set on a hill north of the small village center of Kingfield and just south of the West Branch Carrabasset River.

Its front facade is symmetrical, with rounded two-story bays flanking the center entrance, which is sheltered by a portico supported by groups of fluted columns, with a dentillated cornice beneath its hip roof.

[2] The house was built for Amos G. Winter, a local grain merchant and owner of a general store.

Among the innovations the Stanleys put in the building were a steam-driven heating system whose centerpiece was a railroad engine boiler.

The house was occupied by the Winters until 1950, and was then adapted for use first as a doctor's office and clinic, then as a restaurant and inn,[2] and later converted to multiunit residential use.