The house is constructed in two stories with clapboarded outer walls.

It was built in 1882 by Thomas Benton Hoover, an early Euro-American settler and prominent Fossil citizen.

Hoover was Fossil's first merchant (along with a partner), mayor, justice of the peace, and postmaster, as well as an early county commissioner and director of schools.

[1] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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