The city of Madison, Wisconsin has grown around the old Greek Revival-styled building and in 1974 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

[1] In 1854 Connecticut native Charles Morgan built an inn west of what was then Madison[2] on the stagecoach road heading for the lead-mining region in southwest Wisconsin.

He built the house two stories tall, with brick walls twenty-two inches thick at the base and narrower above.

The style includes some of the Greek Revival elements that were popular at the time: the cornice returns, the unadorned window sills and lintels, and the sidelights and transom around the main entry.

In the same year it was added to the NRHP, significant for both its history and its Greek Revival architecture, which is rather rare in Madison.