[5] The Müllerhaus, a three-story early classical mansion at 7 Bleicherain, "the most beautiful house in Aargau" half a kilometer from the Lenzburg Castle hill, was commissioned by the Lenzburg cotton industrialist Gottlieb Hünerwadel [de] and built in 1785 by the Bernese architect Carl Ahasver von Sinner.

After the economic decline of the Hünerwadel dynasty at the end of the 19th century, the doctor Adolf Müller-Fischer bought the vacant town house in 1903.

[1][2][3][4] In 2004, as part of a civic initiative supported by the Müller Foundation and the Aargau Board of Trustees (German: Aargauer Kuratorium), the institution's main financial partner since 2010,[6] the Müllerhaus became the official address of the cantonal Literature House [de].

[7] The House, which positions itself as "a place for the Word, a meeting place for readers and writers, a hospitable home for literature and people devoted to it," (German: Ein Ort fürs Wort, ein Treffpunkt für Lesende und Schreibende, ein gastliches Haus für Literatur und Menschen, die ihr zugewandt sind) carries out performances of famous authors, readers' conferences, courses on writing and motivated critical reading for children, youth, and adults, as well as other literary events of national and international level, on a regular basis.

Today, the house of literature is at the same time a substitute for that of series, films, video games, and podcasts; in it, the cultural technique of storytelling, whose tropes and memes have long since transcended all media boundaries, is archived, learned, shared, and celebrated.