Built in 1903 by James Keels Kelley, this two story wood frame Colonial Revival residence in Inverness was the home of J.K. Kelley, a county commissioner when Citrus and Hernando were one county, a school board member, a mason, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Inverness City Council from 1923 to 1927. He married Bonnie in Inverness on November 26, 1902, and she was a charter member of the First Presbyterian Church. Kelley was especially remembered for managing a turpentine still at the southern end of town, part of an industry supported by Citrus County's vast pine forests, where pine sap was collected, distilled, and stored in barrels for shipment, with turpentine serving as an ingredient in varnish, paint, soap, explosives, ointments, and medicine, and with prisoners leased from the state as laborers in some stills. For a time, Bonnie Kelley operated The Palm Rest Tourist Home in the house, and sun rooms were later added on the east side of the second floor. The Kelleys lived there until 1961, when Edward and Margaret Butts moved from Paducah, Kentucky, bought the house, and called Inverness the Garden of Eden. Edward and Margaret Butts, and later their son Mike, operated the Shell Gas Station across the street for 40 years and witnessed Main Street change from a sleepy little town to a busy four-lane commercial area. Edward Butts died in 1997, and Mike continued to run the tire and vehicle maintenance business in the Inverness area, while Margaret remained active in her church, volunteered at the 1912 Historic Courthouse, and took pride in the house as one of the few remaining on Main Street.