William T. Cooper, a bartender for Stewart and Thannisch’s Saloon and later owner of two saloons, was first recorded as residing here in 1902. The rambling house remained in the Cooper family until 1945. Apparently constructed in two phases to form a T-plan, a hipped block on the south has a front projecting gabled bay and half porch; a hip-roofed wing to the north features a full, shed-roofed porch.
