This building was originally the kitchen wing of the massive, three-story Ashland Depot Hotel. When the hotel was demolished in 1937, the wood-frame South Wing was remodeled to serve as Ashland's railroad depot. When rail passenger service ended in the Rogue River Valley in 1955, the building endured as a freight depot until Southern Pacific left Ashland in 1985, and the building was vacated.

In 1990, the building was moved across A Street to its current location and renovated by a local restoration contractor.