Dr. Stewart, born in 1873 in Provo, was educated at Brigham Young University and was on the staff of the Dr. Groves LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.

After living in this house, newly constructed, for a short period, Dr. Stewart dies from pneumonia in 1919.

The Hills moved in and finished the second floor to add additional bedroom space.

They also gradually modernized the house, adding electricity around 1925 and installing a bathroom on the first floor around 1932.

This was one of the first indoor bathrooms in the area; one of the Hills children remembers neighbors stopping by to admire it.