In 1829, when Arkansas was a territory of the United States, Jacob Wolf donated the land and built this structure as the first permanent courthouse for Izard County. Competing frontier settlers sought the seat of justice for their towns because it brought additional commerce, and as a territorial legislator from 1827 to 1835, Wolf pursued that designation for his town of Liberty. County government business was conducted here, and county and circuit court sessions were held regularly several times a year. Wolf also established a post office here called Izard Courthouse, where John P. Houston, brother of Sam Houston, served as county clerk, and numerous early Arkansas lawyers worked as judges, prosecutors, and defenders. In 1835 the territorial legislature moved the county seat to another site, and Wolf had the property deeded back to himself. Born in 1786 in North Carolina, Wolf moved to Kentucky before coming to Arkansas, where he became a blacksmith, carpenter, merchant, farmer, legislator, and the father of sixteen children and five stepchildren. Soon after buying this land in 1824, he built a dwelling house, detached kitchen, slave cabins, barn, blacksmith shop, and store before constructing the courthouse. After the seat of justice was removed, he moved his family into the building, and it remained their home until his death in 1863. The two-story structure reflects Wolf's German heritage in its expertly hewn yellow pine legs, first-level breezeway or dogtrot, and exceptional thirty-two-foot logs spanning the breezeway, a leg building form once common on America's frontiers but now rare. It is the only original structure remaining from Wolf's property.