The stone house, located eight miles north of Shelbyville on the Bellevue Pike, was built between 1789 and 1791 by Benjamin Washburn (1763-1847), a Revolutionary War veteran and farmer. Direct descendants of Benjamin Washburn owned the property until the 1940s. The amply proportioned stone house is one of the earliest structures remaining in Shelby County, as well as being one of the few surviving stone structures in the county. Although based on a rather typical two-room, central-hall plan, it has the unusual feature of two identical fireplaces placed side-by-side in the end wall of the east parlor. - NRHP, September 1976