The John Rider House is located on Main Street (CT 53) in Danbury, Connecticut, United States.

The house is located on the east side of Main Street at the south end of the historic district.

Its 1.25-acre (0.51 ha) lot includes, at its rear, the 1836 John Dodd Shop, Danbury's oldest commercial building.

[2] The building itself is a five-by-two-bay clapboard-sided wooden house two and a half stories high on a stone foundation.

[2] Rider, a local carpenter who had served as a captain in the state militia during the Revolutionary War, built the wood frame house in 1785.

Local preservationists rallied to save it, and it became the first of several buildings owned and operated by the Danbury Museum and Historical Society.