[1] In 1874–77, the Chicago and Northeastern Railway (controlled by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad) constructed a line through this area.

The railway refused to establish a station at the new community, but residents petitioned the state Legislature, who decided in their favor.

The couple moved to Pleasant Gap, Missouri, but in 1861, and the Civil War loomed, they fled back to New York after their house was burned.

The windows are tall, narrow one-over-one square-head units in plain board frames with moulded caps.

The facade is asymmetrical, with a pair of side-by-side entrances under a small hip-roof door porch with turned posts.