[1] In 1855, Abraham Wing of Glen Falls, New York purchased a large farm at this location, then on the outskirts of the city of Jackson.

Ella Sharp bequeathed the house and farm to the city of Jackson to be used as a museum and park.

[3] The city of Jackson hired Winiford C. Trout, who began laying out the grounds of the park in 1915.

[3] The Ella Sharp House is a two-story brick structure with an attached three-story freestanding Italianate tower topped with a wooden cupola.

The surrounding yard is enclosed by a solid stone wall, designed and constructed circa 1865 by George S. Brown, an African American Methodist minister and stonemason from New York.