Built in 1827 for a prominent local politician, it is a distinctive example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival architecture in brick.

[1] The John Wilder House stands a short way west of Farrar Park, the village green of Weston, on the north side of Lawrence Hill Road.

It is a large brick building, five bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof and granite slab foundation.

The front-facing gable is fully pedimented, with two sash windows set in segmented-arch openings below a plaque showing the construction date.

Most notable is the stencilwork on the walls of two rooms, which has on a stylistic basis been attributed to the itinerant New Hampshire artist Moses Eaton.