Its builder and earliest resident was polymath Jeremiah Good, the college's professor of mathematics and also the man responsible for designing Founders Hall.

During and after Good's lifetime, he and his family owned the house; since that time, it has passed through a succession of owners, most of whom have been connected to the college in some way.

Little upkeep has been performed on the house for many years, permitting it to fall into disrepair; already by 1910 it had been subdivided into a pair of apartments, and during the 1960s it was rented by the college and used as a student dormitory.

[2] The university finally purchased the house in 2007, after a wealthy man from New Bremen gave a large sum of money to the institution.

[4] The house is covered with a hip roof that rises only a small distance from the edges to the center; it is made of tin.