The Wells-Robertson House stands on land once part of the 1723 grant called Deer Park. During the last half of the nineteenth century, engineer William R. Hutton and his heirs divided and sold the land. In 1885 Henry and Rosa Miller acquired this lot near the newly erected B&O Railroad Station and had William T. Hilton and Sons, the county's best-known builder, construct this Victorian Queen Anne style house. Henry Miller was part owner of the Gaithersburg Milling and Manufacturing Company and was involved with several other early Gaithersburg business ventures. In 1895 the Millers moved into the house that is now Gaithersburg City Hall. From 1895 to 1918 Kate and Dr. Isreal Warfield, a dentist, occupied the house, and for a few months in 1904 many boarding students from Fairview Seminary also stayed there after a fire destroyed their school. The Wells family purchased the house in 1925, and their daughter Mary Wells Robertson continued to live there until 1987, when the house was sold to the city. The city restored this Victorian landmark in 1988 and dedicated it to the community as a transitional house for the homeless, and the project's success made it a model for other jurisdictions and a testimony to partnership among government, business, and community to define problems, identify solutions, and take action to benefit the community.