The property served as summer home to architect Cass Gilbert, who purchased it in 1907 and designed additions to the building as well as a garden.

[2] The town of Ridgefield exists on the ancestral homelands of the Ramapough, Munsee Lenape, and Wiechquasegeck[dubious – discuss] band of the Wappinger people.

[citation needed] In 1708, a group of Norwalk families paid the Ramapough 100 pounds sterling for 20,000 acres of land that would become Ridgefield.

In 1966, preservation-minded community members founded the Keeler Tavern Preservation Society, Inc. and purchased the site, which has operated continuously as a museum since then.

It is located at 152 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA, across from a large Cass Gilbert-designed fountain at the intersection of Rts.