The 21⁄2 story wood-frame house was built in the 1870s as a summer home for the dwarf entertainer Charles Stratton, best known by his stage name, General Tom Thumb.

It has Second Empire architecture, including a mansard roof, paired brackets in the cornice, and paired columns supporting the porch.

The interior was built to meet the needs of the 3-foot-4-inch (102 cm) Stratton and his wife Lavinia, who was also a proportionate dwarf (midget,) however, few of its miniaturized features have survived.

[2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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