Built about 1850, it is one of a cluster of plank-frame houses in the town, and is unusual in that group for its framing style.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

[1] The Williamson House is located in a rural setting in northern Goshen, on the north side of a bend in Messer Road, about 0.4 miles (0.64 km) east of Nutting Road.

It is a 1+1⁄2-story wooden house, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior.

It is distinct in Goshen's cluster of plank-frame houses in its use of two-inch planking instead of the more typical three inches.