On October 3, 1991, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

It was originally located in Hardee County, the house functioned as home to the Carltons and their ten children.

Their eighth child, Doyle E. Carlton, who later became Florida's 25th governor from 1929 to 1933.

[2] It was later inhabited by William Albert Carlton, a 7th generation member of the pioneering Carlton family of Florida citrus growers and ranchers, and his wife, Barbara.

This article about a property in Hardee County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.