George Eastman (1854-1932), founder of Eastman Kodak Company, spent his early youth in and around this one-and-a-half story Greek Revival dwelling in Waterville, N.Y. Eastman's father, who had been a nurseryman in Waterville, moved the family to Rochester, where he founded a business school. At the elder Eastman's death, young George and his mother lived for a time on Livingston Park (near the residence of Dr. Frederick Backus, which now faces the Genesee Country Village square), where the widow Eastman took in boarders.

The main block of the George Eastman's Boyhood Home is a clear and compact translation of the Greek temple idiom into the American vernacular. The essential elements of temple architecture — the post, the lintel and the pediment — are here scaled down and rendered in wood. The broad porch is the podium of the temple; four fluted Doric columns carry the wide entablature (horizontal bands above the columns), which is capped with a fully developed pediment.

None of the home's current furnishings belong to the Eastmans, but have been selected to demonstrate the comfortable circumstances the family enjoyed.