This early Victorian farmhouse was built circa 1860 by Robert Anson Morris and his son Hiram G. Morris from select timbers brought from the North. Robert and his wife Jane Phillips came from New York State and in 1854 bought 100 acres from George W. Moore. Robert was a wealthy landowner, charcoal maker, and abolitionist, and in 1866 he was fatally shot by highwaymen on the Chicago Road while returning by team and wagon after selling wool in Detroit. His daughter Mary Jane married Peter C. Bird. Hiram, born in 1842 and died in 1917, was a scholar and musician who continued charcoal making, brickmaking, and fruit and berry farming there. Hiram and his wives Lucia Peck, who died in 1886, and Annie Downing had nine children born in the house: Mila, Jennie, Loy, Ray, LeVerne, Charles, who was killed in France in World War I, Pearl, Harold, and Willard. The Morris farm was sold when LeVerne moved to California in 1926. Harold later regained the farm and for 20 years raised fancy garden produce before moving to Florida in 1952. In 1980 Frederick W. Hay and Helen Hay, daughter of Ray V. Morris, bought the house and 30 acres, and restoration by Frederick Morris Hay and Gerald A. Diepenhorst, grandsons of Ray, was completed in July 1983.