As Robert Prevost, Pope Leo VIV lived here with his parents, Mildred and Louis, and his two brothers. The Prevost family purchased the three-bedroom new in 1949. Pope Leo was born in 1955 and lived here until he was fourteen. He went away and started seminary high school in 1969. The family stayed here until the 1990s.

After he was named the new pope, the town of Dolton purchased the home in 2025 and plan to preserve it. .