It was built in 1731[citation needed], and is a one-story frame building set upon a ground-level brick basement.

The building has a central hall, single pile plan.

Near the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Union Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth of Delaware, wounded at the Battle of High Bridge was brought to the house, where he died on April 9.

[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

[1] This article about a property in Nottoway County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.