Major Jacob Forney Dailey, an early pioneer settler and the first mayor of Cross Plains from 1871 to 1874, built this home around 1880 as a wedding gift for his daughter Mary Catherine when she married Alexander McCollister, mayor of Piedmont from 1890 to 1891. The first house constructed on West Ladiga Street, it featured fine period woodwork with white, elaborately carved banisters and columns on gray walls, and became one of Piedmont's oldest and best-preserved homes. After several owners, it was sold in 1905 to James Edmond Roberts, deacon, clerk, and Sunday School superintendent at First Baptist Church of Piedmont. His daughters, Miss Leola Roberts and Miss Ruby Roberts, lived at 222 West Ladiga Street until their deaths; both graduated from and each taught for forty years in the Piedmont City School System. On August 4, 1999, Miss Ruby bequeathed the home to First Baptist Church of Piedmont, asking that it be used for the kingdom of God and not be torn down until 25 years after her death. When the church voted in 2015 to demolish the house for a parking lot, the Piedmont Historical Society took ownership and, with grant foundation partners, county government, and private donors, purchased land, moved the home to 75 Southern Boulevard, the former site of the Southern Railroad track, and restored it to its original beauty. In 2018, the Roberts Home Museum and Night in the Museum Hotel was established to preserve Piedmont's history and sustain the house, which was listed in the Alabama Register of Historic Landmarks and Heritage on June 14, 2019.