The house at 273 Dill Avenue was constructed in 1900. Hood College originally purchased the house in 1920 for use as a residence for Vice President Charles E. Wehler, and the house was called East Cottage.
In the summer of 1921, Wehler relocated from East Cottage to a newly constructed home—Westview Terrace— directly behind the property, now the Onica Prall Child Development Lab School, and East Cottage became the College infirmary. Use of East Cottage was discontinued during the 1924-25 school year, and after that school year, the College sold the property to William T. and Janie H. Delaplaine, a 1908 alumna.
In 1979, Janie Delaplaine sold the property to her adopted daughter, Natalie Colbert Bowers ’52.
In 2014, Hood College purchased the property for the College’s presidents. The house was again named East Cottage in 2015.
