The last Governor to occupy it was John E. Davis whose term of office ran through 1960.

[1] The original governor's mansion was built in 1884 as a private home for Bismarck businessman Asa Fisher.

Fisher homesteaded in Edwinton (Bismarck) in 1872 and made his fortune in banking, real estate and liquor sales.

The house was renovated to look as it did in 1893 and opened to the public as a North Dakota State Historic Site in 1983.

This article about a property in North Dakota on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.