In the early 1900s, homesteaders farming the Clarks Fork Valley helped drive Fromberg’s growth, increasing its population and strengthening its role as a regional trade and shipping center. Seeing that promise, Dr. Ted Benson, a recent graduate of the University of Minneapolis, began his practice there in 1907 in a two-room building beside his newly constructed one-story home. The house, built by Edgar J. Schofield in the Colonial Revival style, was expanded with a second story and rear addition in 1912 and enlarged again in 1915. Its front-facing gambrel roof with continuous dormers, wide eaves with decorative rafter and purlin tails, and full-length front porch, later enclosed circa 1927, gave it an architecturally sophisticated character. A gable-roofed horse barn built in 1907 was enlarged in 1912 to house the doctor’s Ford runabout. In 1948, two years before his retirement in 1950, Fromberg honored Dr. Benson on his seventy-fifth birthday with a parade of 125 of “Doc’s babies,” part of the roughly 3,000 children he delivered during his long years of service, and the home remains a Fromberg landmark tied to the town’s early development and to a pioneer physician who served his adopted community well.