About 1870, James H. Taylor, one of the five founders of Del Rio, and his wife Paula Losoya, a native of Mexico, moved here from Uvalde and built this one-story adobe residence. A prominent landowner and merchant, Taylor also owned a local gristmill. After his death in 1876, Paula married Charles Rivers in 1879 and later operated the home as a boarding house. She also became a benefactress for the city's Mexican community, contributing land for a school and cemetery. The house remained in her family until 1939.