Representing a type of architecture known as a "miner's house,"
this modest cottage is believed to have been built around 1910 by a Finnish
carpenter. The house was first moved during a road revision and land exchange,
ending up at what is now Front Street and Gilman Blvd., the site of the Huovar
Motel, where John and Helja Huovar lived between 1951 and 1979. The property was
then purchased by Bill Skorp, who gave the house to Gilman Village in 1984.
