In the 1920s and 1930s the city of Kenosha developed a citywide comprehensive park system, including Alford Park on the far north side of the city. This development went hand in hand with the city's progressive community planning efforts during the first decades of the twentieth century.

The Great Depression of the 1930s caused considerable unemployment in industrial Kenosha, but local parks director and planner Floyd Carlson successfully acquired a significant amount of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding to put Kenosha's unemployed to work on developing the large city parks. Among these park projects were new bathhouses, park shelters, landscaping, and this building, the Alford Park Warehouse.

This warehouse has been an important component in the maintenance of Kenosha's parks. It represents the era of 20th century park development and 1930s WPA funded projects in the city, the most important era of community planning and development in Kenosha's pre World War II history.

The building suffered a major fire on July 10, 2012.