The push to restore the house is credited to Doug Royalty, who worked with the college's Abigail Van Slyck.

Completed in 2013, restoration cost $500,000 and involved several phases, including the dismantling, transportation, and reassembly of the house.

[3][4][5] In 1933, Ames decided to construct two houses on the museum-owned property after seeing prefabricated homes at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.

[6] After its completion, Winslow Ames used the house as a rental property until 1949 when he went to work in a museum in Springfield, Missouri.

[8] Connecticut College continued to rent it to staff and students until 2004, when plans were made to demolish the house.

[4][6] In 2008, an article in The Day stated that the push to restore the house came from conservation specialist Doug Royalty, who was researching prefabricated homes from the 1920s and 1930s.

[9] Royalty approached Abigail Van Slyck, the chairwoman of Connecticut College's art history department and architectural studies program about the house.

[4][9] After its re-discovery, Connecticut College began collecting grants to restore the house under the direction of Royalty and Van Slyck.