Commissioned by original owner B. Rhett Green in 1908, this classic Victorian house featured traditional gingerbread in the peaks of the roofline, original hardwood floors, and original walls. It was built by William Fletcher Belcher, who later became the first Mayor of Largo, Florida, and it is one of the last homes of its kind in Pinellas County. In 1910, the home became a popular gathering place for neighborhood women, who brought their laundry and scrub boards to wash clothes in a big cast iron kettle of boiling water, and it reportedly had the best well in town because other nearby wells were highly sulfurized. Electricity from a coal burning plant on Iron Age Avenue was added in the 1920s, though service was limited to the hours of 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. Originally a one bedroom house, it gained a second bedroom in the 1920s, and a closet space was converted into a bathroom when plumbing was installed in the 1930s. During the 1960s, the original clawfoot bathtub added 30 years earlier fell through the floor, where it remains under the house, and after significant reinforcement of the floor boards, a newer but still antique clawfoot bathtub was installed in the same place. Fritz Kirsch purchased the house in 1976 and carefully restored it to its historic splendor.