Built by the Marsh family in 1805, this Federal-style brick mansion was sold to Frederick Billings in 1869. The Billings family, owners and stewards for nearly a century, renovated and expanded the house, adding many of the ornate Victorian elements for which it is known, eventually bequeathed the mansion to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller and Mary French Rockefeller in 1954.

After more than 200 years in existence, some parts of the mansion were in need of maintenance. So, members from the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps performed window sash maintenance – replacing failing glazing and repainting window sashes throughout the structure. They also repaired deteriorated sills on the garden workshop windows within the adjacent greenhouse building, and re-pointed the exposed brick wall.