The original house on this site was built in 1872 by W. Thornton Vaules, a station agent for the local railroad. In 1895 his daughter, Ella, married the young dentist G. Layton Grier and moved into this house with her parents. Upon the death of Levin D. Caulk in 1896, Dr. Grier moved the L.D. Caulk Company to Milford, and in 1900 he became its first president. In time, he and his brother Dr. Frank Grier built L.D. Caulk into a world dental technology leader. After W. Thornton Vaules died in 1907, Dr. Grier began a comprehensive reconstruction of the house, embellishing it with balconies, fluted columns, leaded glass windows, and formal gardens in the fashionable Victorian style. The Griers raised a son, Vaules, and two daughters, Margaret and Anne. Layton died in 1944, and in 1946 the two daughters donated the house to Milford Memorial Hospital for use as a nursing school. In 1953 it was sold to Roland and Sarah Beauchamp, who lived here until 1977, when Thomas H. Draper and Rachel Grier, a grandniece, bought it and raised four children. In 1990 they sold it to David W. and Dawn D. Kenton, who live here today.