This gable-front-and-wing residence is ornamented with turned porch supports, elaborately carved brackets, a baluster frieze, and decorative cresting along the roofline, precut architectural elements that railroads brought to small towns along their tracks and that allowed builders to personalize homes. According to local sources, Edgar Camp built the house in old Laurel, likely as part of his real estate business. Abraham and Carrie Erb purchased it circa 1907, cut it in two to move it to their farm beside the recently platted new Laurel, and set it on a cast concrete block foundation. Although cast concrete was virtually unheard of in 1900, it soon became popular, especially for foundations, because it was simple and inexpensive to manufacture. While living here, Abraham farmed and briefly owned an implement store. Carrie was active in the local woman’s club and was a moving force behind the creation of Laurel’s library. After Abraham’s untimely death in 1916, Carrie hired a man to work the farm, and the bunkhouse dates from that period. She also took a job directing the new library she had helped found. Even so, she had to rent rooms to make ends meet, particularly during the depression; in 1930, she and her two children shared the home with a railroad worker, his wife, and their seven children, who ranged in age from seven to six months. Carrie retired from the library at age seventy-seven in 1951 and lived here until her death in 1966. Family members continued to live here until 2002.