[1][2] Jedediah Healy and his family were early settlers in Racine County, arriving in 1841.

By 1858 he was well-enough established to build a fine house, reminiscent of homes back east.

The side walls and back consisted of coursed dolomite, but the front surface is the notable one.

[3] The front is veneered in small cobblestones - i.e. hard little rocks rounded by millennia of wave action or by the grinding of glaciers.

The cobbles are laid in rows, with each set in a frame of raised mortar.