In 1892, Henry Jefferson Davis, Jr. and his wife left the family farm in Mt. Pleasant and moved into this home he built in Quincy. He became a partner in the general merchandise firm, the A.L. Wilson Company (established in 1881). The original house was a one-story dwelling. The second story was added circa 1906. The house and the A. L. Wilson Co. interest passed to Henry Jefferson Davis, III. The columns were added in the mid-1970s. The house was purchased first as a bed and breakfast, and then for the Legal Services of North Florida after the Davis’s deaths.