The house is said to have been moved from an original site across the Warrior River in old Erie, the house was newly sited on Main Street and a one-story building exactly the width of the rear structure and resembling the Vaughn house being built across the street at that time, was added on the front. The twentieth century brick piers on the porch replaced a series of supports dating from that period. A physician, Thompson W. Taylor, owned the house in the mid-1800s and built the small office to the east. He sold the house to another physician, John S. Merriwether, in 1866, and the house remained in that family until this century.