Karl Schoenherr was the technical director of the hydromechanical lab for the David Taylor Model Basin in 1961 when he owned this house. The David Taylor Model Basin is one of the largest test facilities for the development of ship design in the world. Schoenherr was an authority on the propulsion of ships and best known for his work on the frictional resistance of fluids on plane surfaces. He was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame from 1945 to 1958. Schoenherr passed away in 1990.