Built c. 1716, it is a rare surviving single cell house from the period.

Most First Period houses were built in their first stage as a chimney section and a two-story section to one side, with one room on each floor, and were later extended with additional rooms on the other side of the chimney, giving colonial rooms their characteristic five bay appearance.

Because this one was never extended in this way, it exhibits a three bay front, with a door in the right-side bay, in front of the chimney.

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

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