The earliest owners of this home built in 1910 in the Fields-Welsh Addition were Barney de Jurnett and wife Margaret (Wilson) Kennedy. The couple rented the property to John Benjamin Helton and lived next door at 1316 5th Ave. Family lore conveys that a stranger knocked on their door one night, offering to purchase the 1316 property. The two parties agreed, and the Kennedy family sold 1316 and moved into 1312. The Kennedys raised several generations in the home, selling it in 1963 to William Pike and Mattie Ethel James. The home was built in the style of a vernacular hipped-roof bungalow with a wide wrap-around porch, round wooden columns, 6/1 windows with diamond topped panes and numerous interior pocket doors.