The R. Bruce and May W. Louden House is an historic building located in Fairfield, Iowa, United States.

The house is within walking distance of the Louden Machinery Company, as it was the custom at the time for factory owners to be close to their properties.

[2] During that period the company produced overhead handling equipment for American industries during World War II.

In 1907, world-famous evangelist Billy Sunday held one of his early revivals next to the Louden home, according to local author and historian Susan Fulton.

Sunday, a native of Ames, Iowa, had been a professional baseball player first for the Chicago White Stockings, then for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and the Philadelphia Phillies.

His marketing technique was to build a wooden tabernacle prior to the revival event—essentially a large wood barn with board bench seats and a sawdust floor.