The Glebe House stands near the southern end of Woodbury's main village, on the south side of Hollow Road near its junction with Connecticut Route 317.

It has a five-bay front facade, with a center entrance topped by a transom window and corniced entablature.

Ten clergy met at the house and selected Samuel Seabury and Jeremiah Leaming as candidates for Bishop of Connecticut.

Under the direction of Henry Watson Kent, the Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the house was restored.

In 1926, Gertrude Jekyll was commissioned to design an "old fashioned" garden to enhance the newly created museum.