Around 1840, Jira Payne, owner of the Atlas sawmill, built this Greek Revival house. Its twin fluted Ionic columns, flanked by square Doric piers, were hand hewn from trees on the property. Emil Lorch, professor of architecture at the University of Michigan from 1906 to 1936, called the portico "one of the most monumental in Michigan." Owned by the George Pomeroy family from 1848 to 1858, the house, known as Pomeroy Hall, was a center of social life in Clinton. In 1862, John Smith, a Clinton merchant and community leader, purchased the house and lived there until his death in 1886. His son Edwin and daughter-in-law Eupania later lived there with their daughter Blanche and her husband, Leander W. Kimball. In 1891-1892, they extensively remodeled the house by adding second stories to the wings and stained-glass windows. After Leander Kimball died in 1955, Blanche donated the property to the residents of Clinton for use as a community center.