Donald Kirk designed and built this house in 1914 for his parents, Charles Martin and Mary Harding Kirk. He studied civil engineering at Auburn University and graduated from Columbia University's School of Mines in 1910. The house is an excellent representative of American Craftsman architecture, with original exterior features including the terra cotta tile roof, wraparound porch, windows, doors, landscaped yard, and gardens, and interior features including original wooden trim, doors, floors, mantles, plaster walls, and ceilings. The Kirk family settled here in the early 1900s. In 1905, they were instrumental in naming the community Axis from a list of available US Postal Service names. Saw mills, along with timber and satsuma cultivation, helped the community grow to include a two-room school, church, packing house, train depot, general store, and post office. The reduced lumber business, Great Depression, and World War I all led to the community's decline. By the end of World War II, very few original settlers were left in Axis, but the community has continued to this day. The house was listed in the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 2009.