美國數學家大衛·庫爾曼(David E. Kullman)曾經回顧過三間小屋問題的歷史。他提到大部份有提到此問題的出版資料,都認為此問題是很早就有的[4]。在庫爾曼找到最早的文獻中,亨利·杜德耐在1917年將此問題命名為「water, gas and electricity」,不過杜德耐也提到「這個問題和山一樣古老,比電燈要早很多,甚至比煤气還要早。[5]」杜德耐之前也曾在1913年的《The Strand Magazine(英语:The Strand Magazine)》中刊過同一個問題[6]。
^ 1.01.1Bóna, Miklós, A Walk Through Combinatorics: An Introduction to Enumeration and Graph Theory, World Scientific: 275–277, 2011, ISBN 9789814335232. Bóna introduces the puzzle (in the form of three houses to be connected to three wells) on p. 275, and writes on p. 277 that it "is equivalent to the problem of drawing K3,3 on a plane surface without crossings".
^Puzzle, Successful Farming, vol. 13, 1914: 50; A well and house puzzle, The Youth's Companion, vol. 90 no. 2, 1916: 392.
^32. The fountain puzzle, The Magician's Own Book, Or, The Whole Art of Conjuring, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald: 276, 1857 [2018-08-27], (原始内容存档于2019-08-13).
^Henneberg, L., Die graphische Statik der starren Körper, Encyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 4.1: 345–434, 1908. As cited by Coxeter (1950). See in particular p. 403.
^Pach, János; Sharir, Micha, 5.1 Crossings—the Brick Factory Problem, Combinatorial Geometry and Its Algorithmic Applications: The Alcalá Lectures, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 152, American Mathematical Society: 126–127, 2009.
^Campbell, S. R.; Ellingham, M. N.; Royle, Gordon F., A characterisation of well-covered cubic graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 1993, 13: 193–212, MR 1220613.