Quad remained in the Fine House until 1910, when the club acquired the house that the University had built in 1887 as a retirement home for President McCosh and his wife, Isabella. Designed by New York architect A. Page Brown, only 28 at the time, this was a handsome, shingled house in the Colonial Revival style. A number of architectural historians have argued that Brown drew heavily on his design for the Taylor house in Newport, Rhode Island, although the McCosh House is much smaller and not as heavily ornamented.