The area where the house of the Venizelos family is built, at the homonym plateau of Halepa, was bought by Kuriakos Venizelos in 1876. The construction of the house was completed in about 1880. The morphology of the house of Venizelos is similar to the other nearby houses of Halepa.
The two-story house has the auxiliary spaces on the ground floor, the bedrooms and the large hall on the first floor, where there was also an exterior stone-made staircase that led to the garden. The garden had several kinds of trees, a vineyard, olive trees, and a small house surrounded by a wooden fence. After the death of Kuriakos Venizelos, the house was inherited to his son Eleftherios and his family.

After his political success, Venizelos leaves Crete and establishes in Athens. Since his departure, the house was rented to several notorious persons until 1927. Then, Elftherios Venizelos returns to Crete and renovates the house in order to live there with his second wife, Elena.
Today the house is preserved as it was after the renovations of Elefhterios Venizelos, who transferred the hall on the ground floor and left the bedrooms on the first floor. Nowadays, the house hosts the Elftherios Venizelos Foundation.