Built about 1860, it was the lifelong home of Wilson Bentley (1865-1931), the town's best known resident and one of world's innovators in the photography of snowflakes.

Extending to either side of the central block are 1+1⁄2-story cross-gabled ells, the right one fronted by a hip-roof porch.

A third ell projects to the house's rear; it is there that Wilson Bentley had his photographic studio.

Wilson Bentley was the grandson of one of Jericho's early settlers, and lived here his entire life.

Largely self-educated, he developed at an early age equipment and techniques for capturing microphotographs of snowflakes, a subject on which he became a well-known authority.