The house was build by Albert Whitney, a prominent Prescott business man associated with the J.P. Wiser distillery, one of the important town business enterprises of the late 19th and early 20th century. It is a good example of two-storey Victorian town dwelling erected by a prosperous business man of the time period and plays an important part in the streetscape of that part of north side of Dibble Street. 

Albert Whitney erected the house in 1875 and was married to Charlotte Coursolles Jones, the daughter of Alphaeus Jones, one of the prominent Loyalist settlers in Prescott. 

The imposing two-storey red brick dwelling built in the mid-Victorian period possesses decorated stone lintels over the double hung windows, double outer doors and a segmental inner door set off-centre in the façade of the building. There is a decorated frieze surrounding the building, and open wooden front verandah and a wooden belvedere surmounting the room.

Set well back form the street on a well-treed lot, the house complements a streetscape made up of such other dwellings as the Chauncey Peck House next door and the Alphaeus Jones House on the same side of Dibble Street in the next block east.