 It is richly decorated in a wide variety of woods and finishes, exhibiting to versatility of the original building owner's wood products.The house was built in 1889-90 for Wales N. Johnson, the owner of a sawmill in nearby West Woodstock.It is one of a relatively small number of houses built in Woodstock during the late 19th-century, a local economic depression occasioned by the rise of more industrialized communities and the availability of better land for settlement in the American west.