The house was built circa 1855 for Dr. Lycurgus B. Walton, a physician and slaveholder.

[2] His son, Martin Atkinson Walton, graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and took over his father's medical practice in the house.

[2] One of his daughter, Eva, married John Bynum Wiggins, and the farm was subsequently inherited by their descendants.

[2] By the 1980s, the owner was John Bynum Wiggins III, and the farm was used for "livestock cattle, soybeans, tobacco, corn and wheat.

This article about a property in Robertson County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.