 Most such houses were built in the Wyoming Hills area, west of Springfield Pike; growth in this area continued until the coming of the Great Depression.Hess was typical of these industrialists, being the president of the Spring and Axle Company in Cincinnati's Carthage neighborhood; he lived in the house from its construction in 1900 until 1911.In 1979, a local historic preservation group began a citywide survey to identify Wyoming's historic buildings, and this effort culminated with a multiple property submission of eighteen houses, the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, and one historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.