 The house was probably built by Samuel Ferris, whose family was among the early settlers of the area, and was the farmhouse for a farm.The building was moved about 80 feet and put onto a new foundation in the 1920s, when the Post Road was realigned.In 1947 the last surviving Ferris descendant gave the farm property to the town, which built housing on most of the farmland, and sold the house back into private ownership in 1957.