This house was built around 1895 by E. L. Hampton, then a ticket agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad. In April of 1904, after the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company (“TCI”) moved most of its operations to Alabama, Hampton leased TCI’s remaining land holdings in this area and organized the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company (“TCC”), which continued to mine coal in the area until the 1990s.

Although the TCC was often involved in major labor disputes with local miners, Hampton, as president of TCC, was an important person in both company and Tracy City civic affairs. Hampton resided in this house until around 1924 when it was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Baggenstoss. The period that Hampton resided in the house was both an important and productive period of mining for TCC.

The E. L. Hampton house is a two-story vernacular frame home in the Queen Anne style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.