Built in 1824, it was the main house for Suffield's town farm, its facility for supporting the poor and needy, between 1887 and 1952.

[1] The John Fuller House is located in a rural area of central northern Suffield, on the west side of Halladay Avenue north of its junction with Blossom Street.

It remained in the family until 1887, when it and the surrounding farmland were purchased by the town as a place to house its indigent population.

The town had been incurring expenses since 1868 to care for the needy, and this purchase was apparently seen as a long-term cost reduction measure.

Use of the farm declined beginning in the 1920s, and with expenses mounting, the town sold the property back into private ownership in 1952.