Bigelow House, a saltbox-style house uncommon in this area but originating in New England, was originally located near New and Smith Roads in East Amherst and was built by Henry Bigelow, one of Amherst's more prosperous early residents, who was originally from Vermont. It is likely that the left side of the house was built in the 1840s, while the right side dates to the 1850s, with the two parts clearly visible from the front and interior details also indicating construction in two periods. By the 1860s, Bigelow's Ransom Creek farm and this house had been inherited by his son, Harry Foster Bigelow, a noted horticulturalist who lived in Williamsville. No one from the Bigelow family is believed to have lived in the house; it was most likely occupied by the farm manager or tenants. Its interior has been furnished to reflect the possible occupation of the house by Harry Bigelow's farm manager and his family during the 1860s, showing the changes in technology and availability of goods that a middle-class rural family would have had at that time. Although the original use of all the rooms is not known, the arrangement is based on research and common mid-19th-century floor plans, with a bedroom on the left for the parents, possibly with an infant or very young child, a parlor as the family's evening gathering place, and in the rear a kitchen, a sub-kitchen or workroom, and a storage area. Two stairways lead to separate second-floor areas, where older children probably slept over the parlor, while the section over the kitchen may have housed farm laborers or been used for storage. The house was moved to the Amherst Museum in 1975 when the original site was acquired for the Ransom Oaks development.