 It is located at 2 Shepard Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island and is now owned by Salve Regina University.It is a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District.The house was built in 1875-1876 by William Watts Sherman, of the banking firm Duncan, Sherman, & Co. of New York, and his first wife Annie Derby Rodgers Wetmore (daughter of William Shepard Wetmore of the nearby Chateau-sur-Mer).