Built in 1803, the house is a -story,
fieldstone house with a
Federal side-hall plan. It was built for Jacob Ehrenhardt Jr. whose father, Jacob Ehrenhardt Sr., had been one of the founders of the town of Emmaus as a settlement of the
Moravian Church in 1747. The home's original owner, Jacob Ehrenhardt Jr., was a member of the
Northampton County militia in 1782, and served in the
American Revolutionary War. Expelled from the Moravian Church for serving in the military, he was later reaccepted into the church and supported himself as a shoemaker, farmer, and tavern-keeper. This historic house has a -story, rear kitchen wing, and a
slate-covered roof. Occupied into the 1950s, it was restored in the 1980s. It is open as a historic house museum. It had been changed so that the toilet was near the old living room. A
Rodale-funded restoration put furniture back in its original place. ==Present day usage==