It was built in 1910 as servant quarters for the Fernwood estate of Alfred Douglass.

[2] The Alfred Douglass House stood in southern Brookline's Buttonwood Village area, in the northwest corner of the former Fernwood estate.

Its front facade was characterized by three large gables, decorated with Gothic bargeboard, finials and drops, and had a main entrance under a gabled hood with large brackets.

[3] The house was designed by Charles Patch, and built in 1910 for Alfred Douglass, a retired New York merchant.

It was enlarged in 1930 by Sidney W. Winslow Jr and converted from a duplex to a single family residence.