Isaac Valentine, a prosperous blacksmith and farmer, built this two-story Georgian house out of the native stone on his land. The house’s location provided Valentine with access to crop markets in New York and with plenty of blacksmithing business as carts and carriages flowed steadily past his door on the way to the King’s Bridge and Manhattan. Isaac Varian bought the house and farm from Valentine’s creditors in 1792, and William F. Beller later bought the house at auction in 1905. He maintained the house on its original site for 60 years, and after his death his son, William C. Beller, donated it to The Bronx County Historical Society in 1965. BCHS restored the house and continues to operate it today as the Museum of Bronx History. Exhibitions and public educational programs focus on the borough’s changes over time. On view at the Museum are the exhibitions “The Surrealist Gypsy and the Poet,” on the works of Pedro Pietri, notable Puerto Rican poet, and “Historias: The Stories Behind the Images,” a Seis del Sur group exhibition of documentary photographs of the Bronx from the 1980s to today.