Dr. George Martin Jones, born in 1867, came to Springtown with his family in 1876 and grew up on a farm about a mile south of town after attending College Hill Institute. Ruth Peterson, born in 1870, came to Springtown in 1889 to join her father and attend College Hill Institute. George and Ruth married at Springtown Methodist Church in 1891 as the second couple wed in the newly constructed frame church that George helped build. Both taught at Clear Fork before George entered medical school in Louisville, Kentucky. His medical practice in Springtown flourished, and he belonged to county and state medical societies. He and Ruth were active in the Methodist church, where he helped finance and build the rock-faced sanctuary across the street from their house, while she served as a Sunday school teacher and charter member of the women's missionary society. They had two sons. In 1915, they built this two-story frame house, a variation of the American Foursquare style with a neoclassical façade. Its notable features include a modified square floor plan with pyramidal roof, full gallery porch with Ionic columns, dormer windows, and an offset front door with swan neck pediment and sidelights. A porch on the south side served as the entrance to Dr. Jones's medical office. The house remained in the Jones family until 1956 and remains a prominent example of a historic architectural residence in Springtown.