 The house was bought in 1815 by Gideon Foster, a local veteran of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.The house was later owned by Eben Sutton, a local textile manufacturer, who sold the house so that it could be moved to make way for a larger house on the same lot.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and included in the Washington Street Historic District in 1985.