"[4] It wasn't until the death of the former resident, Lavina Thomas, that the original builder was discovered.

[6] Clifton Lewis, president of Corporation Of Neighborhood Improvement [7] and other Bartow residents set about restoring old homes in the early 1990s.

When Robert Brown, son of L.B., came to look at his childhood home, he casually mentioned to Lewis, his father had built the house.

Brown house will be represented at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

This article about a property in Polk County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.