It was built along the original Columbia turnpike road between Washington and Ellicott City, and is noted on Hopkins 1878 Atlas.

The house was later owned by the Josephine Ray and Harry J Bloom, Clara Klashaus, Caleb and Elizabeth Rogers, Joseph and Ella Mae Howes, H. Deets Warfield and P. Stanly Gault.

Omar J. Jones lived at the residence when he created the charter form of government.

[1] A former principal of the Lisbon school, he was the first executive of Howard County and responsible for many of the changes required to manage Rouse planned community development Columbia, Maryland.

[4] The house is fieldstone construction, three bays wide by one bay deep and is two stories high of stone construction with one side covered in wood siding.