This home was built for Warren King Moorhead, the first curator of the Robert Singleton Peabody Archaeology Museum at Phillips Academy which was dedicated in March 1903. The property was known as the “Harris Arnold” lot, when it was sold by Phillips Academy Trustees, to Warren’s wife Evelyn L. on July 12, 1905. The 32,860 sq. foot lot was surveyed by Smith & Brooks, Civil Engineers on July 27, 1904.
A second adjoining parcel was later purchased on June 4, 1937.

The parcel came with deed restrictions for 999 years. The home had to be for one family for private use, had to cost a minimum of $4000 above the foundation, and may include a detached stable of $1500. The house had to be 30-foot setback from the road and the stable 60 feet. Bay windows could project only 5’ from the façade, and any pizzas porticos, steps and balustrades could extend 10 feet. No mechanical or other trade or manufacture of any kind shall be carried out on said lot. The Moorhead house would be the first home built on the new street later called Hidden Field.

Warren King Moorhead was born March 10, 1866, in Siena, Italy, son of American parents William G. & Helen M. Moorhead. Warren graduated from Dennison University in Granville Ohio and was an archaeologist. Warren married on 1893 to Evelyn Ludwig b. July 1870 in Circleville, Ohio, daughter of Daniel Ludwig. Warren studied at the Smithsonian Institute and became Curator of the Museums of Ohio State University and Ohio Historical Society before coming to Andover in 1901. His main focus was Native American archaeology and worked on the Indian Mounds of Ohio and Maine costal sites. He was a member of the U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners and was the Director of the Merrimack Valley Archaeology Survey in 1930.

Warren & Evelyn had two sons: Ludwig King b. Jan. 21, 1896, in Columbus, Ohio and Singleton Peabody b. Oct. 15, 1900, at Saranac Lake, NY. Both boys graduated from Phillips Academy. Ludwig graduated from Harvard and became a banker. Singleton was an architect and worked at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

Warren died on January 5, 1939, in Boston of heart failure. He is interred at Woodland Cemetery in Xenia, Ohio. Evelyn remained in the home until her death in 1952. Her sons were co-executors of the estate and sold the house to the Trustees of Phillips Academy for $45,000 on May 25, 1953.

The home continues to be used as faculty housing.