 The bungalow, designed by Benedict J. Bruns, had been built in 1920 for produce wholesaler John Luttrell Coppersmith.Coppersmith sold the house to Henry Dick, a vice president at men's clothing firm Hart, Schaffner & Marx.The large ballfield was removed in 1930 and was replaced with a sunken garden; costs of lighting and maintaining the field had proven prohibitive during the Great Depression.