[1] The Holmes-Crafts Homestead is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a hip roof and two chimneys placed near the rear.

The house has retained a large amount of is exterior finish, including original clapboards and windows.

The interior has equally well-preserved wide pine floors and original door and window hardware.

[2] The house is known to have been standing in 1820, when it was purchased by James Starr, a lawyer and surveyor who was one of the first white settlers to arrive in the Jay Hill area in 1802.

Starr also operated a tavern nearby, served as the town's first postmaster, and represented it in the state legislature.