The John B. Colcord Farmstead is an agricultural complex comprised of fields and woods, a house, barn, and multi-function outbuildings in Benton, Maine. The extant structures generally represent domestic and agricultural activities from the 1880s, 1899, and the 1930s through the 1980s, while the history of the land stretches into the 18th century. As opposed to some farmsteads in Maine that retain a high degree of integrity as a result of generations of lineal descent through a single family, the Colcord farm has been owned, in part or in whole, by at least 13 families since the land was fist purchased from the Kennebec Proprietors by Andrew Richardson, Esq, in 1786. From then until the present the Colcord Farmstead has been farmed continuously, even as the surrounding town of Benton has shed most of its agricultural heritage. This property is recognized for the quality of late nineteenth-century architectural design that is evident in the house, ell and barn, and as an example of a complex that traces its spatial orientation to the connected complex ideal that was prevalent in the second half of the 19th century in Maine. This property was placed in the National Register as a historic district that through its architecture and landscape provides an excellent source for understanding over 200 years of construction within an agricultural context.