Henry Clements worked with his father James and brother William at Industrial Works, where they designed a rail-mounted shovel and crane used at the Chicago Columbian Exposition and the Panama Canal. The Henry and Luella Clements House is unusual in Bay City as one of the few Queen Anne style homes built of brick. Rather than using ornamental trim, it uses decorative brick patterns to emphasize the building’s shape and composition, and its first-floor plate window is framed by a distinctive Romanesque arch of rusticated stone that reflects the Victorian tendency to mix styles. In 1913, Hector McKinnon, president of McKinnon Boiler and Machine Co., bought the house, and in 1920 it was purchased by Judge Samuel Houghton, who prepared the charter uniting Bay City and West Bay City.