Before we moved in, we wondered what it would be like to live "in a fishbowl," with the large picture window of this house. The original building went up before the city kept records, probably sometime in the 1870s. An addition was built on the back in 1879. The original front door was on the left side of the front wall, and it had two matching windows on the first floor. Three windows on the second floor matched the door and two windows below. This was determined partly by looking at similar houses in the neighborhood, and partly by looking at the remaining, unmatched brickwork. The picture window was put in sometime in the 1950s -- an attempt to "modernize" the house.