Around 1890, Lapeer lumberman Columbus Tuttle and his second wife, Linda, built this Queen Anne house. Tuttle's planing mill provided lumber for the county's earliest homes and businesses. After lumbering declined during the 1880s, Tuttle's mills produced finished and ornamental wood products. Tuttle's grand-daughter, noted author Marguerite deAngeli, featured the house in her 1936 children's book Ted and Nina have a Happy Rainy Day.