The house has a construction history dating to the 1790s, and is associated with two prominent figures in Seymour's history: Samuel Sanford, the area's first doctor, and General David Humphreys, a soldier, diplomat, and businessman who developed the first textile mills in the area.

Its main facade is five bays wide, with a single-story porch extending across its full width, supported by round Doric columns and topped by a low balustrade with urn-topped columns.

[2] The first documented owner of the property is Doctor Samuel Sanford, who moved here in 1790, when the area was part of Derby, and served as the first physician to the local population.

The Greek Revival styling appears to have been a later addition, although sources disagree on who the owner was.

In 1803 he also purchased the local dam, and soon afterward built one of the nation's first woolen mills.