[1] The Markham House stands in a rural setting west of the village center of Dublin, on the west side of Snow Hill Road a short way south of its junction with Main Street (New Hampshire Route 101).

It is set in a small clearing on a slope with west-facing views of nearby Dublin Pond.

The roof hangs over a recessed porch on the ground floor, and its steep west face has a long shed-roof dormer whose windows are topped by shallow gables.

[2] The house was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and built in 1898 for Mrs. Hugh McKittrick, whose daughter later married George D. Markham.

In the mid-20th century, the house was purchased by Gray Thoron, dean of the Cornell University Law School.