Prominent Weslaco bankers and citrus farmers C. Lester Skaggs and Florence Richardson Skaggs bought 15 acres here in 1924. Their Spanish Colonial Revival style residence, built in 1927 and designed by prolific Weslaco architect R. Newell Waters, features an off-center entry and metal casement windows. The house remained in the Skaggs family until 1992. The house, native vegetation, and adjoining orchard provide a glimpse of Weslaco's emerging prosperity in the late 1920s. In 1992, Merrill Ann Bebe Skaggs James donated the Skaggs homestead and adjoining ten acres to Frontera Audubon Society, and the site became the subject of conservation and preservation efforts in the early 1990s.