The Benner House is located on Mill Street in the village of Rhinebeck, New York, United States, just off U.S. Route 9.

The northern (rear) facade is oriented diagonally to Mill Street, making it prominently visible to southbound traffic leaving Rhinebeck on the highway.

An asymmetrically placed Dutch door is located in the south (front) facade, with flared stone lintels like the windows nearby.

On the north is a gabled frame wing with a more moderately pitched roof, exposing the two attic windows above it on the main block.

[1] By 1850, locally prominent landowners the Livingston family owned the house, using it as a support building for their nearby Grasmere estate.

The October 26, 1929, edition of the Rhinebeck Gazette describes bins found in the top story or garret of the house.