The McCarty House, enlarged from the original log structure erected circa 1800 by William McCarty, is considered Muncy’s oldest surviving building. William McCarty, his brother Benjamin, and their Walton cousins were Muncy’s founding fathers, and William laid out this section of Muncy using the standard municipal grid pattern. Its low ceilings and New England-style central fireplaces preserved heat in winter, and oral history says deer and bear were shot from the front door. John McCarty, William’s son, worked as a blacksmith from the carriage house behind the family homestead, shaping heated iron into useful household items and tools for tradesmen such as wheelwrights and farmers. The Federal-style building with Greek Revival elements built by John McCarty circa 1812 was originally a four-room structure set back from Main Street, and additions were made by the mid-1850s. Its squirrel tail or beehive bake oven survives in the colonial kitchen. Muncy merchant Thomas Clapp bought the property for his family, and it remained in the Clapp family until the flood of 1936, when the H. Forest Clapp family donated it to the town of Muncy. Restored by the WPA in 1937, it later housed Muncy’s Public Library for many years. Like many properties in Muncy’s northern low-lying areas, it lies in the flood plain, and in 1972 five feet of water stood on the first floor. Until the 1850s, Dr. Edward Kittoe’s dentistry and medical office was located there.