Built in 1914, this architecturally undistinguished American Foursquare house was a childhood home of entertainer Rudy Vallée during the period in which his interests in music and entertaining developed.

It is a fairly typical American Foursquare house, roughly square in shape and two stories in height, with a hip roof and clapboard siding.

[2] The house was built in 1914 for Charles A. Vallee, the owner of a local drugstore.

Better known by his stage name of Rudy, the younger Vallee developed his interest in music and entertaining while growing up here, exposed to music through records and phonographs at his father's drugstore, and movies through work at local theaters.

By 1920 he was playing the saxophone in local orchestras, and he rose to national stardom in the 1930s.