In 1900, Julia Green Scott worked with architect Arthur Pillsbury to design an addition for the home which included the parlor, foyer, north facing porch and stained-glass windows.

Matthew T. Scott was a significant local businessman and developer who helped found the town of Chenoa, Illinois in 1855.

Though Matthew and Julia lived in Chenoa at the beginning of their marriage, they moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1870 before settling in Bloomington in 1872.

After Matthew's death in 1891, Julia became a prominent businesswoman and community leader; her accomplishments included serving as president of the McLean County Coal Company.

With her connections to the revolutionary war, her and her sister played an integral role in the early growth of the National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution.

As one of the largest landowners in IL with 10,000 acres of farmland and an advocate of conservation, Julia sent 40 of her tenant farmers to the University of Illinois College of Agriculture to acquaint them with new and advanced methods in farming.

On December 28, 1896, Carl and Julia were wed at the home of her sister Letitia Scott Bromwell in St. Louis, Missouri.

Julia, who was very interested and active in philanthropic work, decided that she wanted to help with the war effort more she was on the home front.

Carl was being sent to Europe by President Wilson as a member of a special Presidential Commission whose goal was to help solve the agricultural problems of the Allied nations during World War I.

Beginning on August 23, 1918, until late 1919, she worked for the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) with American soldiers at the front.

As part of her work with the Y.M.C.A., Julia formed a jazz band of soldiers of the American army of occupation in Europe to entertain and improve the morale of the troops in France, Germany, and Belgium.

Carl was a member of the original Lions Club of Bloomington, an honorary vice-president for life of the McLean County Historical Society.

He belonged to the Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star, was elected president of the Community Players Theater in 1923, and served as public relations and information chairman of the McLean County chapter of the American Red Cross in 1947, among other things.

She also continued her philanthropic work and played the role of hostess during the many parties she and Carl held at their mansion on Taylor Street.

Many formal dances of Illinois Wesleyan University fraternities and sororities and tea parties were held at their home.

This included President Woodrow Wilson & Mrs. Edith Wilson, President Franklin Roosevelt & Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson II, William Jennings Bryan, many European Heads of State, playwright Rachel Crothers, poets Sara Teasdale and Vachel Lindsay.

Carl was the Assistant United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson and started the victory garden campaign during World War I.

It also brought the Department of Agriculture in actual personal touch with farmers throughout the country by establishing county offices with local agents that could assist famers with individual problems.

With good roads, productivity increases because a farmer bringing his crop to market can take bigger loads (thus making fewer trips), get there quicker, and get back to work.

Through his travels across the country, Carl learned that there was a need to put the results of the new agricultural research in a language that the typical farmer could understand and apply to his own operations.

He was charged with the collection, processing, and shipment of nearly a million bushels of corn to the starving European nations of Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia as a gift from American farmers.