Built in 1865, Grosvenor House was once the home of Professor Edwin A. Grosvenor, an 1867 graduate and a professor of government and history at the College from 1892 to 1914. Grosvenor lived there well into his 90s, long after he had retired from the classroom. The house was purchased from his son, Gilbert, in 1937 and has since been used as faculty offices. It now houses the Departments of Classics and Women's and Gender Studies.