The home was originally built as a springhouse around 1902, to keep dairy products cold for resale. The addition, featuring the basement apartment, was built in 1940, the stone veneer added, as well, at that time. The house was a tenant house for the McCracken Dairy, formerly located nearby, which serviced local residents, restaurants and boarding houses with milk, cream, butter and eggs. Tragically, the barn burned in 1937, and the family house, also on-site, burned in 1938. My grandparents then moved into this home and lived there the rest of there lives. This apt. was the caretaker's home.