John and Catharine Brickett settled in this area around 1816, where their original log and wood frame house was later replaced by the present house built from locally fired clay bricks. At the time, the main route wove through rural Chatham, New Hampshire, and Stow, Maine, ending at the Bricketts' front door, and for many years this site marked the end of the road on the Maine frontier. For five decades, John, Catharine, Phebe, John's second wife after Catharine's death in 1839, and their nine children subsisted on a small-scale farm by growing potatoes, corn, and hay and raising livestock, while in winter and spring they supplemented their income through logging and maple sugaring. Since John Brickett's death in 1863, the house has had many uses. After the Forest Service acquired it in 1918, Brickett Place served at various times as the headquarters for a nearby Civilian Conservation Corps camp, a Forest Service information station, an Appalachian Mountain Club hut, a Boy Scouts of America bunkhouse, and a hiking information center.