This simple two-story wood-frame structure largely embodies the Greek Revival style with its side gable roof, entablature window and door heads, boxed cornice and plain frieze, and its pedimented attic vents.

His father helped found the first Czech language newspaper in the United States, Slovan Amerikansky, in Wisconsin.

After the family relocated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa with its larger Czech community, the house was bought by Mary H. Rohret in 1891.

[2] While he worked most of his life as a farmer, Rohret is thought to have helped build the Old Capitol in Iowa City in his youth.

This article about a property in Johnson County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.