The Popular Culture Department is located in a house ordered from Montgomery Ward & Company, erected in 1932 by Virgil H. Taylor. This house is probably one of the last of the Montgomery Ward houses, as they stopped publishing their house catalog in 1931.

Bowling Green State University bought the building in 1937 to house the University President. A substantial addition was added to the rear of the house in 1949. In addition to being the president's house, various University offices have been located in the house, including the Alumni Association and the Graduate College. In the late seventies, the Popular Culture Department moved into the house.

For historical information about this building, see the Popular Culture Center on BGSU’s Historic Campus Tour.