The original owner, Melvin Whitson Mills, was an attorney, politician, and businessman who was one of the founders of Springer NM.

He needed a home large enough for him and his wife, his parents, and five adopted children.

It is a three-story 32-room adobe house on a rise near Cimarron Creek on the edge of Springer.

It is made of adobe, has a metal mansard roof with four chimneys protruding above.

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