It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

[2] The house and farm were owned by Deacon Joseph Russell, a descendant of Robert Russell, a Scotsman, who emigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and was the first person buried in Andover's newly created South Parish 'Burying-Yard,' as it was called, in 1710 at age 80.

[3] Russell's descendants intermarried with the Holt, Abbott, Marshall, Chandler, Dane and other early Andover settler families.

The 'Scotland District' name for that section of Andover derives from Robert Russell's Scottish birthplace,[4] and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.

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