This home was built as part of the Shawsheen Village development 1918 – 1924 by William M. Wood, President of the American Woolen Company. Wood hired about eight different architects to design the homes and structures for the village. Homes were sold or leased through the Homestead Association who had offices in the Post Office building on the corner of North Main & Poor Streets.

After the death of William M. Wood on Feb. 2, 1926 most of the residential and commercial buildings were then sold. Some were held by the Wood family in the "Arden Trust" and others with the American Woolen Company, which had been deeded the property in December 1920. The A.W.Co. Board of Directors authorized its President, Lionel J. Noah, to deliver all deeds, as deemed necessary to the Textile Realty for sale on Dec. 29, 1931.

The Textile Realty then transferred ownership to the Andover Shawsheen Realty Company on June 30, 1932, holding the mortgage on the properties. T. Edwin Andrew, treasurer, was authorized to sell or lease the properties. With the Great Depression sales were sluggish and many homes were rented until the economy rebounded.

One of the first occupants of record to lease the home in 1926 were C. Leroy & Ethel (Coolidge) Ambye. Leroy was the manager of the American Woolen CO. farms in West Andover, which included the Shawsheen Stock Farm on Argilla Rd, and the Wild Rose and Clover Farms on Lowell Street. William M. Wood had them built to supply a fresh supply of milk and dairy products for the residents of Shawsheen Village and the Shawsheen Dairy. In 1930 Arthur A. & Sadie Koerner are leasing the home.Arthur was an overseer for the A.W.Co. In 1934 they would purchase the home next door at #17 Argyle St.

This house was sold to Thomas B. & Lillian A. Barraclough on Oct. 28, 1952. Thomas was a Broker in Boston and had been renting the home in the 1940s.