The John Smith House is located on Albany Avenue (NY 32) in Kingston, New York, United States.

The house is on a deep, narrow, level lot at the corner of the busy intersection of Albany Avenue and Chandler Drive (Interstate 587/NY 28).

This junction marks a boundary between the mixed-use uptown area around the Stockade District and the residential neighborhoods of Albany and neighboring streets.

The George J. Smith House is to the east, with the Sharp Burial Ground about 300 feet (91 m) further away on the other side of the street.

[1] The Smith house is a two-story, three-by-three-bay clapboard-sided frame structure on a raised brick foundation with a moderately pitched hipped roof.

The west, facing what is now the end of the interstate, is the least decorated of the facades, with asymmetrical windows and an enclosed cellar stair.