The Brownlee Addition Historic District lies along West Spruce and West Walnut Streets between North West Street and Brownlee Avenue in Princeton. Most of the district was originally owned by Robert W. Evans. On April 15, 1828, Judge Samuel Hall, who later became Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1840-1843, purchased the land from Evans and in 1832 built a home at what is now 404 W. Walnut with materials brought from Baltimore, Maryland. According to a January 1954 Indy Star Magazine article, the house stood on a 100-acre tract and was designed after the Governor's Palace in Virginia. A later owner, John Brownlee, developed the area as an addition to the city of Princeton. After the Brownlees sold the home in 1936, Judge A. Dale Eby purchased it. Eby served in WWI in the Field Artillery and later in the air service, leaving with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He began practicing law in Princeton in 1920 and served as prosecuting attorney and then judge of the circuit court. He was the judge in the 1955 "Mad Dog" Leslie Irvin murder trial from Vanderburgh County. The district contains architectural styles ranging from Carpenter-Builder and Queen Anne to Bungalow and English Cottage. Its most architecturally significant structure is the Mary Hawe Yeager House, a c. 1885 Queen Anne home on North West Street. The Brownlee Addition remains a good example of a middle-class neighborhood of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.