It was built with red bricks in 1875 by Morten Rasmussen, an immigrant from Denmark who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and arrived in Ephraim, Utah in 1851, before moving to Mount Pleasant with other Mormon settlers in 1859.

[2] Rasmussen lived in this house, designed in the Federal architectural style, with his wife, née Karen Marie Christiansen, also an immigrant from Denmark, and their twelve children.

[2] He was a missionary in his native Denmark from 1881 to 1883,[3] and he died in 1885.

[2] The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 18, 1977.

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