The John Black Lee House I is located in a rural-residential area in northern New Canaan, on a 3-acre (1.2 ha) on the east side of Laurel Road just south of its junction with North Wilton Road. The house is set on a high ridge which runs parallel to the roadway. It is a single-story structure, with a unique post-and-beam construction that incorporates metal rods to anchor the structure to the underlying granite.