Haus Friedwart was built in the 1920s as a stately home for three families by the architect Paul Johann Bay - an unusual concept of communal living at the time, although it was never actually realized in this house. The building was made available to the expanding Goetheanum colony in 1921 as an administrative and residential building.

At the time, it housed the secretariats of various anthroposophical initiatives and even a publishing house. Tickets for the legendary 'Christmas Conference' in 1923 for the founding of the Anthroposophical Society could also be purchased here in Haus Friedwart.

Soon the 'Further Education School at the Goetheanum' moved into the house, the first school in Switzerland based on the Waldorf education already tested in Stuttgart from 1919. Due to legal regulations, the Friedwart School could not operate as a full-time school; it was considered a further education school.

The so-called "Friedwart Sketches" were given by Rudolf Steiner in 1923-24 when Louise van Blommestein was teaching painting. At that time, the further education school was still in the rooms of an old wooden barrack. After the school moved to the Friedwart house, the sketches were given the name "Friedwartskizzen" (Friedwart sketches); they are still well-known among artists today. Also noteworthy are the motifs cut into glass in the stairwell, which date from this period.

At that time, the school had a boarding school character: eurythmy, Greek gymnastics, painting, modeling, speech formation and dramatic and epic reading were part of the basic curriculum, scientific subjects were given epochally, each coordinated according to aesthetic criteria.

Haus Friedwart has now been a hotel garni with 27 beds for several decades. In 1999, the rooms, lounge area and sanitary facilities underwent a thorough refurbishment to preserve the homely character of the house. In 2004, the hotel was expanded to include the meeting center, which has been in existence since 1974.