This house was built in 1908 by Joseph Watchorn for John Davis. John came to the area with his mother, Megry Davis, in 1892 when he was four years old. We have little information about him before 1921 when we found him owning a garage located at the parking lot at the corner of Village Road and Echo Road. For several decades John Davis offered multiple services, including a gas station, repair shop and a Ford dealership, as indicated in a 1937 advertisement from the Morin-Heights Chamber of Commerce.