Louis Rosenbaum was an immigrant who fled Poland as a child with his mother and younger brother. As an adult, he married and moved his wife, Anna, and only child Stanley, to Florence, Alabama where he began establishing movie houses. At one time, Louis owned 12 movie theaters – the going entertainment of the day. Stanley spent most of his young life in Florence, then attending Harvard University at age 16 where he graduated with honors, followed by the University of Denver for his Master’s degree. An intellectual, Stanley spoke five languages and became a professor of English and Literature at the local university.  

In 1938, he met and became engaged to Mildred Bookholtz, a native of NYC where she lived with her family.   Mildred studied music and art at Hunter College and attended Columbia Teachers college during which time she worked as a model for the John Robert Powers Agency appearing in national magazines such as Vogue.

As a wedding present from Stanley’s parents, the young couple received $7,500 and a piece of property on which to build a house. They contacted their friend Aaron Green, an architectural student at Cooper Union in New York. Aaron is the one who suggested they contact Frank Lloyd Wright, aware of the new inexpensive Usonian house that Wright had designed for the Jacobs family three years earlier. He wrote the letter of commission to Wright on Stanley’s behalf and it was accepted. In subsequent years, Aaron Green became a valued apprentice and member of Wright’s team working with him until Wright’s death in 1959. The Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum House is one of the earliest Usonian houses built, one of only 25 pre-war Usonians.