Built in 1822 for a prominent local citizen by James Ritchie, a regionally acclaimed stonemason, it is one of the rural community's finer stone houses of the period.

[1] The Ira Hill House stands in the village center of Isle La Motte, on the west side of Main Street north of its junction with School Street, and just south of the town hall.

[2] The house was built in 1822 by James Ritchie, a regionally prominent Scottish immigrant stonemason who is credited with building nine buildings in Isle La Motte, including the Methodist Church which stands a short way to the east.

Ritchie built the house for Ira Hill, a prominent local businessman and son of one of the island's major landowners.

Hill engaged in wide variety of businesses, including the operation of a hotel and tavern on these premises.