Hilda Reed purchased this lot for $600 on January 16, 1907, shortly after moving to Missoula with her husband Theodore, their daughter Hulda, and her brother-in-law Andrew, and a second daughter, Theodora, arrived shortly thereafter. Theodore and Andrew, both carpenter-contractors and Norwegian-born brothers, almost certainly worked together to build this meticulously crafted one-and-one-half-story Craftsman-style home, where Hilda, Theodore, and their family lived until 1945. The residence featured a low-pitched roof with wide flaring eaves, a centered dormer, and a front porch tucked beneath the main roof, and its subtle detailing included leaded glass windows, decorative crown moldings, and a wood belt separating the foundation from the tidy lap wood siding. The house served as a silent advertisement for the brothers' carpentry skills. Andrew, a lifelong bachelor, lived in a small home behind the main house until his death in 1942. Sometime after 1958, new owners replaced Andrew's house and the Reeds' garage with a small modern home, part of a broader pattern in the 1950s and 1960s as many homeowners in the neighborhood added rental houses on portions of their lots to take advantage of the area's prime location.