This Second Empire home was built on a 26 acre farm in the 1860’s by Selden Trall, a retired druggist from NY.  It was inherited by son Orrin Trall, a farmer and one of Hillsdale’s founding fathers and founding Fire Dept. members as well as town and county tax collector.  It passed on to daughter Myra in 1924, who was married to George Yates, first Borough Clerk and 3rd Mayor of Hillsdale.  At that time, the property had a tennis court, a popular social venue, on the properties directly west of it.  Modified c. 1900 in Colonial Revival style, it was restored to its original Victorian period from 1995 to 2002.