It is now a museum operated by the Ouachita County Historical Society, along with the Leake-Ingham Building at the rear of the property.

The 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1847 by Peter McCollum and sold ten years later to Colonel John T. Chidester.

Chidester was a prominent businessman who controversially sought to do business with Union interests during the Civil War.

After the war he established a mail company that operated so-called "Star routes" as far west as the Arizona Territory.

This article about a property in Ouachita County, Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.