In 1842 William Barker, a postmaster at Orville in 1815, paid to Aaron Bart $1,250 for the lot and this house then in the village of Lodi, diagonally opposite the Orphan Asylum. (see page 50).

The Greek Revival is now reaching its prime and its forms are thoroughly familiar. The average carpenter has become skilled and is exerting much of his individual character in his work. In this respect, the house has returned to earlier forms with the gable once again on the ends. It is inconceivable, however, that this was built in any of the earlier periods, chiefly because of the wide protecting horizontal moulding of the pediment, the entablature being wider still, and the typical "stomach windows". The cornice mo ulding is likewise of a later finesse.

Most noteworthy are the iron grilles in the attic windows of a strange geometric form. There is little precedent for this type of design which therefore presages the growing ease in the use of the Revival.