It was built circa 1840 for Melchisedec Brame, a farmer from Virginia who owned 9 slaves.

[2] Brame died in 1845, and in 1850 a portico designed in the Greek Revival architectural style was added by his heir, William B. M.

[2] By the 1870s, it was purchased by John Cotner, and it remained in the Cotner-Wood family until the 1980s.

[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 23, 1998.

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