Beat Emanuel Tscharner hired Carl Ahasver von Sinner to build the house for his family in 1782. The house remained in with the Tscharner family for just over a century. In 1897, Friedrich Emil Welti, the son of the Federal Council member Emil Welti, bought the estate. He purchased it with the indemnities of his divorce from his first wife Lydia Welti-Escher, who was accused of having cheated on him for over ten years with painter Karl Stauffer. In 1942, Friedrich Emil Welti's second wife and widow Helene Welti-Kammerer donated the house and estate to the Swiss Confederation in memory of Emil Welti.