This house is a front-gable bungalow built around 1930. While it does not have a dominant architectural style, this simple folk house displays some features found on Craftsman style houses such as the jerkinhead gables. The house has wide eaves that may have had exposed rafters in the past. 

The property was once owned by Ella Bratton McKnight, a member of the Bratton family who came to Mansfield in 1852. Mrs. McKnight owned the lands in Block 39 and 42 of the Original Town. The house represents a type of modest bungalow that was common in Mansfield in the 1920s and 1930s. 

The house has been altered over the years but retains two jerkinhead (clipped off) gables facing E. Broad Street, one on the main roof and on the front porch. Typically, front-gable bungalows in Mansfield have a front facing gable, hip roof or shed roof on the porch. 

This house is an officially recognized historic resource of the City of Mansfield.