The park site’s original residence was built in 1919 by the Puget Mill Company and was first owned by Joseph R. and Harriet B. Holt. In 1934, wanting to live in the country, Mildred and Albert Humble and their two daughters, Janice and Mary, traded their Seattle home for the Holts’ two-room house on a five-acre tract. The Humble family’s furnishings filled the little house to capacity, forcing them to sleep in the well house behind the main house. Renovations over the next 30 years added two bedrooms, a dining room, cellar, and fireplace, allowing the family to move completely into the house. Although Mr. Humble rode the Interurban to work in Seattle every day, a 45-minute train ride, the family was living on a farm, caring for animals, building chicken coops, and working in the cherry orchard. Across the road from the Alderwood Manor Demonstration Farm, it was a significant farm of its time, and the original house was typical of the minimal accommodations the Puget Mill Company provided for pioneering families. The house has been preserved at Heritage Park as a residence typical of 1940s Alderwood Manor.