It is a residential building designed by the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Göhre in the Neoclassical style.
In the 1800s, the Berlin freight forwarder Moreau Ballette purchased a plot of land on the Templiner See owned by the Potsdam merchant Meyer Isaac Cohn.
In 1870, Ballette had a small tower villa built on the property, constructed by the Potsdam bricklayer Otto Held.
[1] During the era of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the villa was used as the location of a radiology clinic.
[1] Since 2019, the HMU Health and Medical University's Potsdam campus has maintained a study location at Villa Carlshagen.