Built in 1961 to a design by Allan Gelbin, it is one of the town's finer examplers of Usonian Mid-Century Modern architecture, a style espoused by Frank Lloyd Wright that is also relatively rare in the state.

The southern facade of the house is primarily glass, with a deep overhanging eave providing shade from the summer heat.

[2] The house was built in 1961 for Walter and Sylvia Stockmayer; he had then recently accepted a professorship at Dartmouth College in nearby Hanover, New Hampshire.

The house was designed by Allan Gelbin, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright who was then in the early years of a productive career.

The Stockmayers, seeking a modern design for their home, were connected to Gelbin by Lucille Zimmerman, who owned a Wright-designed house in Manchester, New Hampshire.