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The Moreton Frewen House was built in the early 1880s. The house is not especially significant for its architecture, exceptional material, or historic events. However, through its original owner and first tenant, Moreton Frewen, it stands as a symbol of a connection that once existed between two widely disparate historic movements. The first of these was a major era in the evolvement of modern Britain, and the second a phase of transition on the fast moving American frontier. Frewen was a wealth scion of British gentry. He was attracted by developments in the American west and eventually located a ranch near the present town of Kaycee, Wyoming. In the early 1880s he began to spend more and more time in Cheyenne in the promotion of various schemes to strengthen the cattle market. At this time he had constructed this small one story house and it remains one of the few surviving creations of Moreton Frewen.