Named for artist Hilton Leech (Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1906 - Died in Virginia City, Montana 1969),[2] it is located at 1666 Hillview Street.

On June 22, 1995, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

[3] Leech painted watercolor murals at the Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and United States Courthouse, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[5][6] He also painted Removal of the County Seat from Daphne to Bay Minette (1939) at the U.S. Post Office in Bay Minette, Alabama from a commission by the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture.

[7] Media related to Hilton Leech House and Amagansett Art School at Wikimedia Commons