[1] Alfred Wilcox purchased the property where this house is located in 1835, selling it the next year to Henry Sparks.

Sparks began farming a portion of the property, and in 1842 sold this section to his brother Asa.

Asa Sparks likely lived with his brother while starting his own farm, and in about 1852 constructed this farmhouse.

It was resold to Silas N. Brownell in 1867, then to George Montgomery in 1876, and finally to Edward Anderson in 1884.

[2] As of 2014, Kalamazoo College owns the house, with the neighboring former farmland now used as the Lillian Anderson Arboretum.