Each has a hipped-roof single-story porch extending across the front facade, with Queen Anne style turned balustrades and posts.

The interiors of both buildings retain trim and other details original to their period of construction.

[2] These two houses were built sometime between 1916 and 1921, during a period of prosperity in Bennington that followed the First World War.

They were built by two local residents as a speculative venture to provide rental housing to workers in the nearby mills (located a short walk away), and were probably identical in design as an economic measure to reduce costs.

They went through only a few owners prior to their acquisition in 1990 by the Regional Affordable Housing Corporation, which rehabilitated the buildings and converted them into a four-unit condominium complex.