The original section was built about 1800, as a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, frame dwelling.

The building housed a general store that operated there from at least 1867 until about 1945, and a post office from 1902 to 1939.

Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse with attached wash house (formerly a blacksmith shop), a corn house and a machine shed.

[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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