Albert F. Colburn commissioned George P. Loveland & Co to build this high-style Queen Anne house in 1891 on land subdivided from the estate of Deacon Oliver Hardy. Colburn was the proprietor and treasurer of Wait's River Paper Company, organized in 1886. In 1894, Joseph E. Sleeper, section foreman for the Passumpsic Railroad, purchased the house. Michigan's 29th governor, Albert E. Sleeper, a Bradford Academy graduate, sold the property in 1934 to Burnside H. Hooker. A descendant of the "Father of Connecticut," Rev. Thomas Hooker, Burnside H. Hooker began railroading at age 16 as a brakeman, became an agent at Orleans and Ryegate, and moved to Bradford in 1914 to serve as Boston & Maine R.R. station master. B.H. Hooker retired in 1955.