Built in 1790, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture, designed by William Sprat, a prominent early architect.

[1] The Henry Champion House is located on the southern fringe of the village of Westchester in southwestern Colchester, on the west side of Westchester Road at its junction with Pickerel Lake Road.

Two brick chimneys are symmetrically placed in the interior, rising behind the main roof ridge.

The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters and sheltered by a gabled portico.

[2] He was also a major figure in the Connecticut Land Company, which undertook the settlement of parts of Upstate New York and Ohio.