Built c. 1760, it has features unusual for its time, including end chimneys and a center-hall plan.

[1] The Jonathan Wheeler House is located in a rural setting of northern Canterbury, on the east side of North Society Road about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the Brooklyn line.

Its main facade is five bays wide, the center entrance set in a rectangular opening with a seven-light transom window.

His family was well-established there, and he had purchased a number of land parcels in the Canterbury area in the 1750s.

The house is unusual for its central-hall plan, built at a time when central chimneys were more common, and for its use of brick in a single-story rural building.