Construction on the historic Weil house, located at 403 North Sixth Street, was  begun in the late 1880's, continuing on into the early 1890's. The home is an asymmetrical design by Louisville's Brinton Davis. It features a two story layout with an upper corner cupola porch, which originally had a witches hat roof over it. A verandahed porch encircles two sides of the first floor. Weil was born in Hohenzollern, Germany in 1830. He immigrated to the United States when he was 17. In 1863, he moved to Paducah, and engaged in the whiskey and tobacco business. Meyer Weil was a prominent businessman in Paducah. He was Paducah's mayor from 1871-1881. He is credited with bringing Paducah back into a normal mode after the tension following the Civil War. He represented McCracken County in the Kentucky State Legislature from 1897 to 1890. Weil died in 1891, before his impressive home was finished.