The Joseph Buffington House, built about 1821 at this site, was a tenant house within the village of Copesville, now part of the Taylor-Cope National Register Historic District. In 1792, Joseph Buffington, a blacksmith from New Castle County, Delaware, purchased 49 acres here and built a tilt mill to the east. In the early 1800s, he built tenant houses on both sides of Strasburg Road, and the village he developed became known as Copesville. About 1829, Buffington constructed a small two-story frame house here, which was enlarged to the east in the 1830s. In 1830, he retired, sold the mill property to Edge Cope, and around that time moved into this tenant house. Buffington died here in 1841 while still living in the house. His daughters, Ann and Elizabeth, continued to live here for the next 40 years and built additional tenant houses to the west. In 1883, Emmor B. Cope, a well-known engineer and son of Edge Cope, purchased the property. In 2015, the house, in poor condition, was documented by the owner and demolished.