 The oldest portion of the house, its western three bays and leanto, was built about 1700, and the eastern bays were added about 1725.The original chimney was quite large; the present chimney is a 19th-century replacement, and a second chimney in the leanto is a 20th-century addition.The house underwent a historically sensitive restoration in the 1930s, under the auspices of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England).