A constant threat of fire during the 1870s prompted residents to move away from the gulch and settle in this outlying neighborhood. Merchant Jacob Feldberg and wife Emma, respected members of Helena’s once-dynamic Jewish community, built one of the neighborhood’s first brick homes here in 1875. Its design illustrates the adaptation of utilitarian wood-frame, gable-front-and-wing type dwellings to fine, substantial housing. From the 1870s to the late 1890s Ewing Street was two lots farther east, and the Feldberg’s east bay window faced the Presbyterian Church (demolished in the late 1890s) next door. The well-maintained home, now clad in stucco, retains its 1870s configuration.
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