[1][3] Arthur House was built by Lyman Bass, a successful attorney who partnered with Grover Cleveland and worked for William Jackson Palmer's Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

While in the city he became an attorney for Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, General William Jackson Palmer's company.

[1][4] Inside, John LaFarge designed jeweled glass, tiled fireplaces and opulent paneling.

Vice President Theodore Roosevelt came to Colorado Springs, had dinner at Edgeplain and attended a polo match during his 1901 visit.

[4] After Alan Arthur and his wife Myra purchased the home, they had it expanded and remodeled by Thompson Hetherington and Walter Douglas, prominent local architects who built Colorado College residential halls.

Their home was "one of the outstanding meetings places of the social leaders from Colorado Springs and Denver.

[4] Oklahoma businessman Joseph Abraham bought the furnished house in 1922 as a summer home for him and his wife Fannie for $30,000.

He was owner of a department store chain from Minnesota to Washington and Oregon and sold his interests in 1927 to J. C. Penney Company.

The dorm lies on the western part of the campus and is home to about 20 students housed in rooms for 1, 2 or 3 people.