Owned by Judge Jonathan Corwin, sources state that most of the pretrials for the Salem witch trials were actually conducted inside the house, labelling it as the "Witch House." After Corwin's death in 1718, it was continuously passed down in his family until the 1850s when it sold to a pharmacist named George Farrington who added a pharmacy to the side of the building. The house also later served as an antique store called the Witch House Antiques.