George Wise's Second Empire style home with a mansard roof was built in 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, on a site previously owned by his father, Captain Daniel Wise, who fought in the Revolutionary War. When it was built, it was the first home in the village to have steam heat, installed at a cost of $1,000. In the mid 1930s it later operated as a guest house called "The Willard," and in 1956 the Bibber family purchased it to operate as a funeral home.
