The Victorian house was completed in 1902 by L.H. Brightman A Cleveland Ohio industrialist for his wife Elizabeth and eight of their twelve children. Soon his business outgrew the Millersburg area and four years later he and his family moved out. In 1907 a group physicians purchased the home for use as a sanitarium, and two years later it was again sold to H.C. Lee a senior partner of the Griggs and Lee construction company. The home remained in the Lee family until 1971 when Lena Lee Unkel the married daughter of H.C.Lee passed away, she had lived in the home from 1909 until her passing in 1971.