The house was built about 1822, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal style frame dwelling.

Krider was born in Pennsylvania on August 17, 1788, and moved to Salisbury, North Carolina with his family after 1800.

He served in a North Carolina militia unit that fought the Creek Indians in the later part of the War of 1812.

A post office was established at Mount Vernon on May 27, 1822, with Jacob Krider as the first postmaster.

This article about a property in Rowan County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.