The origins of this home and boarding house, and who built it, remain uncertain. An 1892 photograph shows it nearly completed and occupied, but without its front verandah and exterior lap siding. Research links the house to two resident families: Winfield Scott Perrigo, his wife Ora, and their grandson C. Joe Galloway; and the family of Samuel Logan Alexander. Perrigo was from Michigan and had probably been in Tennessee for some time before becoming involved with Rugby, but he apparently died just as the family was becoming established there around 1901. His widow Ora may have been the first to operate the building as a boarding house until her death in 1903, and C. Joe Galloway lived there with her until then. In the 1980s, Galloway shared childhood memories of turn-of-the-century Rugby and his affection for his grandmother, and he donated funds so the property could be purchased in hopes that the boarding house might someday be historically reconstructed in her memory. The property was later bought from Historic Rugby by private owners who would carry out that goal. The Alexander family, originally from Kentucky, had lived in nearby Fentress County and perhaps Scott County before residing in this house in Rugby. They may have lived there before the Perrigos and again after Ora died, and they also may have operated it as a boarding house. Alexander descendants donated several family household items once used in the house, including a clay jug resembling one seen on the back porch in an old photograph. Oral history in the Rugby Archives includes Joe Gibson, who lived next door in later years and recalled that the house was taken down and its materials, including the stone foundation, hauled away sometime in the 1930s.