The 2+1⁄2-story plank-framed First Period house was built in about 1720, and has a typical center chimney plan.

The house was at one time believed to have been built earlier, in the 1660s, by a man named Richard Dyke.

It is one of two First Period houses surviving on Wheeler's Point.

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

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