George Taylor was one of Lehigh Valley's most prominent citizens in the eighteenth century—an entrepreneur, civic leader, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. He owned houses in Easton (
NO5) and, in 1768, built a summerhouse in what was then this rural location. Much larger than his Easton houses, this house is prominently sited on a rise above the Lehigh River with a two-story five-bay facade with central entrance on an elevated basement. Its rubble stone walls are two feet in depth and covered with stucco. A later, lower addition extends the house to the south.