In 1826, Evans built this modest house at what is now the corner of Ottawa Street and Chicago Boulevard for his personal dwelling and for use as an inn for travelers.

Musgrove's wife Abigail "Abi" Brown Evans, for whom a local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was later named, died in the early 1830s.

[3] In 1886, Adams' daughter sold the house, and it was moved from its original location on Chicago Boulevard to the current site.

[3] The house is a rectangular, two-story, five-bay, Federal style structure with a single story rear addition.

Large, axe-hewn beams were used for construction, and are joined at the corners by mortise and tenon joints and locked with wooden pegs.