It is a rare example of a period building that was moved and added onto another which had been damaged by fire.

The oldest portion of the house, its east side and center chimney, were probably built c. 1709 by Ebenezer Frie.

The west side of the house is a second structure that was attached to the first in the 1760s, with some documentary and physical evidence that this was due to a fire destroying the original west side.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

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