For several years during the late 1930s and early 1940s this mansion was known as Wolf's Tea Room. Wedding receptions, partied of all sorts and club meetings were held here. There was no place like it before or since in this village.

The property, owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wolf, was purchased by them on 28 May 1936 from Robert Allen.

From old abstacts of the property, the land on East Ave. was originally owned by John S. Cronise who sold part of the area he owned to Stephen N. Keener.

The house was built in the 1860s like many other houses on the east side of what was then Charles St., now East Ave. The 1874 atlas shows the property was owned by S.N. Keener. Indications are that he built the 17-room brick edifice when he returned from service in the Union Army during the Civil War. It was ready for his bride, Katie E. Espenscheid of Lyons, whom he married 21 January 1868.

The house was purchased on 1 October 1874 by Lewis R. Herrick, a noted physician in Albany, and his wife, the former Emma Potter. On 28 December 1876 they deeded the house to their daughter, Emma C. Herrick Morse for $100 and "our love and affection for our said daughter." Emma Herrick Morse was married to Rollin E. Morse 16 October 1860.

Rollin Morse also owned a cottage on Lake Bluff, as many other Newark people did during the 1880s and 1890s as part of what was then known as the Newark colony.

Prior to the death of Rollin Morse, his wife, who owned the home and property deeded the house on 16 December 1897 to her daughter-in-law, Lillie A. Morse, who had married Louis H. Morse in August 1881. 

The house was finally sold in 1936 and Louis Morse died not long after in 1939 in the Newark Hospital at the age of 76. His widow lived until 1950 and died in a nursing home at 90.

The delightful Tea Room was closed in the war years. Mr. Wolf, in his 90s, who lived in Temple TX, wrote that he believes it was in 1941 that he and Mrs. Wolf stopped running the Tea Room. They then converted the house into four large apartments, living in one and renting the other three. Later, in failing health they sold the property to Mr. and Mrs. William Scheetz in May 1969.