Completed in 1937, the three-bedroom, one-bathroom house was built with plastered brick walls and a concrete tile gable roof and sited on a 505 m2 (5,440 sq ft) section.

[4] Savage carrying the table became "the defining symbol of the first Labour government's state housing programme".

[4] The ministers handed the keys to the first tenants, David and Mary McGregor.

[5] David McGregor was a tram driver for the Wellington City Council, earning a wage of £4 7s 9d (equal to $8.78 in modern New Zealand dollars) per week.

[5] On 25 September 1986, the house was registered with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I heritage item, with registration number 1360.