Constructed in 1882 as a two-room home for Carmelite priests, the house was the first building in Stanton. After their marriage in 1902, Dennis and Mary (Stoeger) Connell made their home there, and Mary bore eight children in the house as it grew with the family. By 1915 it had five rooms, with more additions made in the 1920s and 1930s. The simple home features a distinctive west gable, weatherboard siding, a front porch with shed room and turned-wood posts, and double primary entry doors. Upon the death of the last Connell daughter in 1990, the house was transferred to the local historical museum.