Built in 1918 at 800½ South Main Street in El Dorado, Kansas, this house arose directly from the oil boom and the heavy demand for housing as people moved into the area. It was originally arranged as two single-room rentals, then later opened into a two-room home, illustrating the kind of rental housing available to oil boom workers and the way El Dorado residents added small rental houses to the backs of their lots for extra income. Mary Elizabeth Anderson rented and lived in the house from 1931 until the early 1950s, leasing it from Mr. Cropson, a radio repairman who owned and lived in the property in front. The house was never modernized with running water or plumbing; a water hydrant stood just outside the kitchen door, and an outhouse was farther back. Born in 1872, Anderson was 59 when she began renting the house. She had nine children between 1893 and 1912, and she and her husband, Lewis Anderson, moved to El Dorado in 1919. By the time she began living in the two-room house, her children were grown and gone from home, though family members often visited and stayed there. After Anderson's death, her granddaughter Barbara Redburn bought the house for $2,600 in September 1986, had Ralph Hobson move it to one mile east of Cambridge, Kansas, for restoration in her grandmother's memory, and later donated it with its contents for an oil town living history area.