Built in 1912 by James A. and Margaret Leila "Maggie" Shepard Dezell, the Dezell House was their family home for 46 years and reflects Prairie Style architecture with Arts and Crafts features. James A. Dezell, born in Chicago in 1867, moved from southwestern Missouri to Gadsden County in 1886. He and Maggie, a Gadsden County native, married on September 13, 1893, and between 1894 and 1903 had three sons and two daughters. James and his father, Samuel A. Dezell, were builders and constructed the Samuel Dezell family house in Mt. Pleasant in 1886. James A. Dezell was also the first mayor of the Town of Greensboro, serving several terms after the first organizational meeting on August 13, 1908. Distinctive features of the house include its closeness to the ground rather than sitting on piers, fine craftsmanship, and windows set in dormers that crown each main roof slope and provide light for a skylight in the entry hall. Its listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 affirmed the soundness of the materials and techniques chosen for its construction.