Charles and Gladys Pelton arrived in Stillwater County from Nebraska in 1917 and built one of the county’s most successful sheep ranches. Charley Pelton served as president of the Stillwater Wool Growers Association and the Beartooth Stockgrowers Association. After first living in a small white house immediately south of the site, the family hired local contractor and mason Vern Garoutte of Absarokee in September 1927 to build a distinctive American Foursquare house. By February 1928, Charles and Gladys Pelton and their four children were settled into the new cobblestone two-story house with a basement and modern conveniences including electric lights, waterworks, and a fireplace. The house reflects the popular early twentieth-century American Foursquare style, with a square plan, a low pyramidal hipped roof with wide overhangs, two roof dormers on opposing roof slopes, and a full-width front porch. Its most unusual feature is its skillful construction of local cobblestones, many taken from the basement excavation, with walls twenty inches thick and a massive cobblestone chimney on the north elevation. Gladys and Charley Pelton lived there until 1959, and the house stands as an impressive example of cobblestone construction, skilled workmanship, durability, and beauty.