Built in 1931 by the McCurdy family, this house had an interior lined completely with cedar wood, a floor of hand selected quarter-sawed oak, and beveled glass in its windows and doors. It later housed a delicatessen in the 1980s, and plans were underway to renovate it as a landmark museum for the city of Rainsville when fire destroyed it in 1990. Edward Elijah McCurdy (1880-1954) moved to Rainsville in 1912 to operate a general store and became a landowner of vast acreage. His wife, Susie Lofton (1877-1975), bore seven children and taught school in DeKalb and Jackson Counties for over five decades. Elected as a Republican to the DeKalb County Commission in 1926, Edward McCurdy helped promote growth atop Sand Mountain by working to route the intersection of Alabama Highways 75 and 35 in Rainsville; Alabama Highway 75 in town was later named McCurdy Avenue.