This is likely referring to the ransacking of the mansion of Thomas Hutchinson, then the lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts during "the troubles" that led to the War for Independence. It did happen, but perhaps not exactly the way described in the OP.

What happened instead was, on the night of August 26th, 1765, a mob - described hyperbolically as "more violent indeed than any that would be seen in the entire course of the Revolution" - assembled at Hutchinson's house, broke down the door with axes, and poured into the mansion, and went about methodically sacking the place. They didn't destroy the building wholesale, but they ripped down anything they could, including the wainscotting and moulding, smashed down whole interior walls, ripped up the garden, ripped apart and scattered books and personal papers, took and scattered silver and china, and even dismantled the house's cupola, an act which took hours and a dedicated crew. If the house hadn't been made of brick, it may have been totally destroyed. An engraving from 1836 shows the mansion, but notably misses the cupola. An idea of what it may have looked like might be this one, from the Jeremiah Lee mansion, also in Massachusetts.

Notably, this was not the first time a mob had threatened Hutchinson at his house, only weeks before a similar mob had assembled, intending to do much the same, and demanded that Hutchinson formally deny that he had argued in favor of the Stamp Act to Parliament. He refused, but cooler heads among the crowd dissuaded the more ardent members before anything happened.

The night of the second incident, Hutchinson had been warned that another mob was assembling, and were intent on destroying other official's houses, as well as the admiralty offices and the customs-house. Hutchinson didn't believe that he would be targeted again, but then:

In the evening, whilst I was at supper and my children round me, somebody ran in and said the mob were coming. I directed my children to fly to a secure place, and shut up my house as I had done before, intending not to quit it; but my eldest daughter repented her leaving me, hastened back, and protested she would not quit the house unless I did. I couldn't stand against this, and withdrew with her to a neighboring house, where I had been but a few minutes before the hellish crew fell upon my house with the rage of devils, and in a moment with axes split down the doors and entered. My son being in the great entry heard them cry: "Damn him, he is upstairs, well have him!" Some ran immediately as high as the top of the house, others filled the rooms below and cellars, and others remained without the house to be employed there... until 4 o'clock, by which time one of the best finished houses in the Province had nothing remaining but the bare walls and floors. Not contented with tearing off all the wainscot and hangings, and splitting the doors to pieces, they beat down the partition walls ; and although that alone cost them near two hours, they cut down the cupola or lanthorn, and they began to take the slate and boards from the roof, and were prevented only by the approaching daylight from a total demolition of the building. The garden-house was laid flat, and all my trees, etc., broke down to the ground.

The next morning, newspapers reported that pieces of the Hutchinson home - including expensive china, silverware, and money - were strewn around the Boston streets. While some theft most likely occurred, this was, for all its intensity, a starkly symbolic action. This was personal, yes, but it was political as well. And the systematic nature of the destruction was highlighted by witnesses, victims, and participants. This wasn't just some torch job, the destruction was careful, and oriented around the visible symbols of power, up to and including the engineering feat of a few men in a few hours removing the house's cupola in the dead of night. That's not rage, or bloody-minded destruction. That is a highly coordinated protest.

This is generally in keeping with what historian Paul Giljie calls the "Anglo-American Mob Tradition," a way to describe violent, public actions that take political theater and symbolic destruction out into the streets. Another term is "politics out of doors," and although high-minded symbolic protests that destroy property are often the ones remembered, this tradition also extends to the more hideously, and personally, violent actions such as lynchings, and only slightly less abhorrent, tarring and feathering, down to public humiliations like riding men out of town on rails, or burning powerful people in effigy.

A similar riotous act and destruction of a building occurred in the summer of 1812, when a pro-war mob assembled on the offices of an anti-war newspaper, and did entirely dismantle the building, but because there was some resistance from the Federalists inside, some were quite brutally beaten and tortured in the streets while the destruction went on. The pro-war mobs continued their riots for nearly a month more, and moved on from anti-war newspapermen to the homes and churches of free blacks in Baltimore. During the rising tensions in the 1850s similar actions also occurred, up to and including murder and open warfare in border areas and in places where the tension between abolitionists and slavers was at its most fierce.

To round all this out: yes, American mobs on at least one occasion did systematically destroy an entire house, but it was a single event in a much larger trend of "politics out of doors" that was a feature of the American political system on every side of every issue.