Local real estate investors established the Polk County Homestead & Trust Co. to develop the northern portion of North Des Moines in partnership with the Prospect Park Improvement Company.

Polk County Homestead & Trust Co. bought this property from the Prospect Park Improvement Company, and the two advertised the addition together.

[2] The Queen Anne style was popular in this middle and upper-middle-class neighborhood before the Panic of 1893.

The former Norman Wiles Seventh-day Adventist School (c. 1925) is the only institutional building in the historic district.

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