Setting: Outdoors

Season: Fall/Autumn

Event: Not Available

Side Of House: Front

Room: Not Available

Description: Just a short year later in 1845, a gentlemen named Benjamin Wood, who would eventually go on to become mayor of Weston, bought some of this land from the town of Weston and built a beautiful two story, federal styled home. Through the years, the house changed owners several times. Mr. Wood sold the house to Ben Holladay on April 5th 1856 for $5,000. A few years later on August 26th 1872, Ben sold the house to his brother, David Holladay for $5,800. David lived at the house and ran the distillery that he and his brother founded, while his brother, Ben, ventured west and gained fame from the Overland Stagecoach Company. David left the property to his sister, Mrs. Kate Bulter, in his passing in 1899. However, Mrs. Bulter was bought out by her niece and niece's husband, Mrs. Clara Holladay Barton and Thomas Barton. The house stayed within the Barton family until 1920 when it was sold to Emma Doppler. Mrs. Doppler passed in 1936 and Herbert Doppler inherited the house. Around 1940 Herb