The stone portion of the Blumer house was built around 1858 and is a very early and extremely fine example of Swiss ethnic stone construction. The builder used small pieces of roughly quarried limestone known as "rubble" to build the walls and then finished the surface with a smooth coating of lime mortar or plaster. This building technique was utilized in the construction of many of the first permanent buildings built by the original Swiss settlers of New Glarus. These settlers were from Canton Glarus in Switzerland and this technique is found there. The Blumer House is the finest surviving example of this construction method in New Glarus. The house is also shows how this ethnic group adapted the then popular Greek Revival style of architecture to its needs. Blumer was the first physician to practice in the village. When the clapboard addition was constructed around 1877, the building housed a hardware and tinsmithing business.

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