One of the oldest houses in the Meadowbrook area, this structure was reportedly constructed about 1908. The Hendricks family owned the 15 acre estate on which the structure stood until 1916 when they sold it to William A. and Kate Pearce. Pearce subdivided a portion of the acreage in 1926 as the Mount Vernon Heights Addition and built homes for his daughter Alice and other family members on some of the lots. Alice Pearce married Charles Atkinson, an attorney who later served as a judge, and the couple inherited the house from her parents. The house has sustained major alterations since its construction. It originally had a hip roof and a projecting shed-roofed porch supported by square brick posts surmounted by Tuscan columns. Over the years, a section has been added to the front of the house, the front porch reconfigured, a second story porch added and the roof line altered extensively.
