Molenbosch owes its name to a windmill that stood along the Driebergseweg and which was demolished a few years after the house was built.
In 1835, the Amsterdam banker Johannes Bernardus Stoop buys a piece of land for eight thousand guilders from dowager Henriëtte van Oosthuyse, the only daughter of Petrus Judocus van Oosthuyse, who owned Sparrendaal. At that time, the plot was already known under the name "Het Molenbosch".
Two years (?) Later, he commissioned architect J.D. Zocher jr. To design an outdoor space. Apparently he took plenty of time for it, because the first stone was not laid until 1849. It will be a house in the neoclassical style.
The garden is laid out in a landscape style, also to a design by Zocher. house has a high position on an artificial hill. The park contains a coach house, a small white-plastered gardener's house from 1840, a garden arbor, a dovecote, a hexagonal "chicken palace" from 1898 and a chapel. The old vegetable cellar serves as a bat shelter. There is also an oval walled vegetable garden, currently used as an allotment complex.
The former estate is part of the Stichtse Lustwarande.