This house is one of several surviving employee housing units of the Dixie Mill textile village in LaGrange. While it has been identified as a “saltbox” in architectural surveys, Scott Reed points out that these are not truly saltboxes, and referred me to John Linley’s term: spraddle-roof. The form was used throughout the neighborhood. Dixie Mill, established in the late 1890s, was the first of many modern textile operations that would dominate LaGrange’s economy throughout most of the 20th century.