[1][2] David Howie was an agent of the Northwest Fuel Company, which dealt in coal, wholesale and retail.

[3] His wife Adda F. Howie was a published author and an innovator in dairy farming techniques.

It is two stories plus an attic, clad in cream brick, with elaborate wood trim around the windows.

[3] All these are Queen Anne hallmarks, but combined with unusual restraint by architect C.F.

In 1993 it was bought by Andrew and Marie Parker and restored, now operating as a Manderley bed and breakfast.