The house was built by Alexander Hannah in 1858 in a Italianate style, He married his wife Elizabeth in 1872 and it was at this time he added a service building to the south east of the kitchen wing. Both of the Hannah’s were staunch abolitionists and hid slaves in their basement here they had a secret room (these were on there way to Canada). The room was always kept locked, over a period of time some slaves died and they were buried beneath the floor of the basement to prevent detection.
 
Alexander died in 1895 and leaving no heirs the house was divided and sold. In 1899 Roman Oehler brought the house and some surrounding property, he passed the house on to his daughter and family and they lived there till 1962. The house went through a period of restoration between 1981 and 1999 and is now open as a reception hall.

The ghost of Alexander is said to haunt here near to the staircase, there have been many sighting of the ghosts of the slaves and mostly people report the strange smells,one is the smell of rotting flesh thought to be that of Elizabeth’s stillborn baby and the other is of rotting flesh thought to be of the slaves when they burnt to death from a fire.