[2] The Colburn House stands on a rise overlooking the Kennebec River to the west.

It is set south of the First Congregational Church of Pittston, on the west side of Arnold Road, an old alignment of Maine State Route 27, which runs just to the east.

The front facade is five bays wide, with slightly irregular spacing of windows, and a comparatively elaborate front door surround consisting of flanking sidelight windows and pilasters supporting a corniced entablature.

[2] Reuben Colburn and his family settled in Gardinerston (then part of Massachusetts) in 1761.

[1] The house passed out of the Colburn family in 1953, after which it underwent some restorative work under private ownership.