Bodo Kraus, grandson of Fredrich William and Dorothea Kraus, was born in 1903 in this wooden house on the Kraus property a few miles east of Round Top. He and his wife, Pearlie Birkelbach, lived on the family farm for many years. For 29 years, Bodo Kraus was president of the Round Top State Bank, which was chartered in 1912. The house was later given to the Round Top Area Historical Society by the Kraus family and moved to Round Top on April 7, 1998.