Merchant and planter Matthew Jones built a frame hall-chamber house with earth-fast posts and the present chimneys about 1720. He followed with a substantial kitchen in 1727, as evidenced by a brick with that date that was salvaged and used in the house during a remodeling in 1892. A guardian for Jones's son replaced the house walls with brick, added a two-story projection and a rear shed, and raised the chimneys in 1729. The walls were raised to a full two stories late in the nineteenth century, and most of the earlier interior was removed. The Jones House is now a museum focused on the physical evidence of its complex evolution.