This 48-acre farm is the last remnant of an agricultural way of life that characterized Parma Township well into the 20th century. Its farmhouse, built circa 1855 by Western Reserve settler Lyman Stearns, represents the Greek Revival style of architecture popular in this region prior to the Civil War, and its "Yankee" style barn predates the house. West Side Cleveland meat processor Earl C. Gibbs and his family bought the farm in 1919 and built a newer house in 1920, then continued to graze cattle there through the 1970s even after suburban development following World War II engulfed virtually all of the area by the 1950s and Parma's suburbs completely surrounded the property. The City of Parma purchased the property from the Gibbs family in 1980 to preserve this unique remnant of Parma's rural heritage, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, and the Parma Area Historical Society has since maintained it as a working educational and historic farm.