Built in the early 1850s by Lucy Wixom, widow of town founder Alijah Wixom, this house was first occupied by the Reverend and Mrs. Samuel Wire. Reverend Wire was pastor of the Free Will Baptist Association of Commerce, and the house originally consisted of a parlor, a bedroom, a loft, and a basement. The Wires used their home for church and funeral services, with caskets placed in an alcove in the parlor and moved through a wide north door added for easier passage to the cemetery across the street. In 1897 the Tiffin family purchased the house and added the kitchen and porch in the 1920s. Their sons William and Charlie lived there until 1975, when they died at the ages of 95 and 105. In 1975, the Wixom Historical Society acquired the home for restoration and the creation of a musuem.