After fire destroyed an earlier house on this site in 1855, owner Albert Willcoxon, who had no insurance, completed this center hall plan vernacular Greek Revival brick house with a double chimney on each end and took out a $2,000 insurance policy in January 1860. In July 1861, Union Army troops reportedly vandalized the new home by demolishing window glass and tearing doors from their hinges, while other Union soldiers took refuge and convalesced here, leaving their names, inscriptions, and pictographs on the still undecorated plaster walls. Around 1900 the house acquired the name Blenheim. A century later, Willcoxon descendants turned it into a comfortable country home, removing a rear kitchen addition and adding a modern kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room on the north side, later removed during restoration, and the present classical-columned front porch dates to 1948. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, the house is the centerpiece of Historic Blenheim and remains a vivid reminder of the area's rural past.
