[1][2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture and social and cultural significance to the local area in 1982.

The English Tudor revival mansion was built for Charles Frederick Kohl and his second wife Mary Elisabeth "Bessie" (née Godey), as their country house.

[1] The forty-acre estate included a brick structure with a gabled roof and approximately 42,000 square feet of interior space, 63 rooms, three stories tall and with a basement.

Charles Frederick "Freddie" Kohl took over the family business after his father's death in 1893, which gave him access to fortunes.

[5] Verge was deported back to her home country of France and committed to a mental institution, where she expressed wanting vengeance.

Charles Fredrick committed suicide in 1921 after acting paranoid upon hearing Verge had been released from the French mental asylum.

[5] In 1925, the Ku Klux Klan, a group known for their anti-Catholicism stance, burned a cross on a hill above the convent.