In 1932, newlyweds Elbert Norfleet "E.N." Woodrum and Comette Josephine (Ramsey) Woodrum hired contractors to build a Tudor revival house with asymmetrical cross gables, a large three-story chimney on the south elevation, and a wide plank oak front door with a tudor arch and leaded glass window featuring diagonally arranged panes. The original designer is unknown, but architect Clyde H. Griesenbeck, known for this style in Dallas and Highland Park, was commissioned to expand the house in 1937, and the Woodrums hired him again in 1946 to update a commercial building they owned in Denton. The Woodrums had three children. Ila Mae (Wadley) Boyd and her husband, Judge Benjamin Wade Boyle, were influential members of the community and moved into the home in 1949, calling it "Boyd's Nest" and raising two children there. Mae Wadley Boyd was active in women's clubs, supported the College of Industrial Arts, later Texas Woman's University, in Denton, served as president of both the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs and the Texas State College for Women Alumni Association, and was named by Governor Price Daniel as a delegate to the 1960 White House Conference on Youth and Children. In 1925, Benjamin W. Boyd became judge of the 19th District Court of Texas, serving Denton and Cooke counties, and in 1952 he was appointed Associate Justice to the 2nd District Courts of Civil Appeals in Fort Worth. After the Boyds moved out in 1963, several later owners were associated with Texas Woman's University, and after restoration to its original appearance, the house was designated a City of Denton Historic Landmark in 2017.