James M. Skipper, a carpenter, purchased this site in 1906; construction of his house very likely occurred the same year. After 1910 a number of tenants rented the house. In a common vernacular composition, an asymmetrically placed, gabled bay projects forward from the central hipped block. The house was built with an unusual degree of embellishment featuring a curving porch with fluted Ionic columns, and diamond-shaped windows in the gabled bays.
