Jukichi Harada, a local restaurant proprietor, purchased this house in 1915 in the names of his three American-born minor children, and it was remodeled and expanded to two stories in 1916. The question of its legal ownership produced the first test and successful challenge of the 1913 California Alien Land Law, which prohibited aliens from legally owning property in the state. Jukichi Harada died in 1944.