Constructed in 1856 and also known as the Tennent-Baker House, this one-and-one-half story home was built of hand-hewn local timbers by Nelson Rogers, Troy's first postmaster and blacksmith. Its construction includes cottonwood floor joists mortise and tenon joints into the sills, oak floorboards five to seven and one-half inches wide and one inch thick, hand-split oak laths, some original glass panes in the windows, and ruby stained glass panes in the front door. The house is an example of early frontier construction based on the New England saltbox design. In December 1859, during his only trip to Kansas Territory, Abraham Lincoln visited Troy and spoke one half block west of this site. At that time the home was occupied by Sidney Tennent and his wife Chloe, and he and Lincoln shared a mutual acquaintance, John Calhoun, surveyor-general for Kansas Territory, who had died mysteriously six weeks earlier. Local lore holds that Lincoln visited Sidney Tennent here, and years later I.D. Parker quoted Aunt Chloe's memory of Lincoln's visit to her home in 1859.