The mansion was built in 1848 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982, for its significance in architecture, education, politics/government, and social history.

[3] In 1848, Dr. John Bancker Aycrigg, a physician and politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives, built the Renaissance revival Italian Palazzo style home for his family.

[4] In 1899, the house became the first permanent home of the Passaic Collegiate School (which today is at 22 Kent Court).

For a several years, the house was the home to the Passaic Museum which shut down due to financial issues.

[4] Since the late 1990s, the structure houses a boy's religious high school, Mesivta Tiferes R' Tzvi Aryeh Zemel.