Locally known as "the Schenk House", 194 Main Street was built by the Schenk family and has remained a prominent feature of Flemington history. The house was built in 1901 by Stephen G. Blacker of Lambertville. It doubled in size 1919 at which time the bay windows in the dining room (and the room above) were added. The tower was added in 1939. 194 Main Street exhibits many interesting features of the Queen Anne Style. It has an asymmetrical structure with projecting bays, varied roof lines, and patterned shingles on the third floor.

John Schenk was born in 1905 and died in 1988 at the age of 83. He was a graduate of Princeton University and was one of two delegates to the 1947 New Jersey Constitutional Convention. He served two terms as Mayor of Flemington (from 1934-1937), and was the President of the Foran Foundry and Manufacturing Company (Liberty Village now occupies the site of the foundry), and was also a director of the Hunterdon County National Bank.

Henry Schenk, John Schenk's father, served as treasurer of the Foran Foundry and was part of the Foran family through marriage to Mary Foran.

The Schenk family has been important to Flemington since the Revolutionary War. Militiaman, John Schenk (age 21) gathered information regarding the 500 British infantry men who were on their way to Flemington to confiscate some large stores of beef and pork stored there by commissary Colonel Thomas Lowery of the American Army. Captain John Schenk, Garret Schenk, Abraham Prale, William Schenk, Jacob Schenk and Militiaman John Schenk intercepted a British cornet. A local farmer advised the British that Washington had arrived in great numbers and that there were many militiamen in the area. This was two weeks before the Battle of Trenton, the first American Victory, and it is credited with unnerving the British, thus contributing to their defeat.

John Schenk's great great grandfather, Jacob Hardenbergh, was a member of the constitutional convention of 1776. Another ancestor, Ferdinand Schenk, was a member of the constitutional convention of 1844.