The house was built in 1825 for Reps Osborne Childress, a settler whose father had received a land grant for his service in the American Revolutionary War.[2] Childress had a wife, Sarah, and eight children. After his death, the house was inherited by his son Marion Childress, who served as a major during the American Civil War.[2] By the 1980s, it belonged to a descendant of the Childress family, Fred M. Lamon Jr.[2]