It was built in 1906 for Arthur C. Trumbo as a replica of one of Mark Twain's houses and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The plot on which it stands was originally in the Creek Nation, Indian territory, before it was incorporated into Oklahoma on November 16, 1907.

Patterson, and both men were pioneer bankers and promoters of Muskogee and early Arkansas River navigation.

Together these two men provided the financing for Muskogee's Convention Hall, scene of the Trans-Mississippi Congress of 1907.

[a][4] At the time the Trumbo house was built, Muskogee was within the Creek Nation in Indian Territory.