Agnes McConnell Robinson lived in this house for 42 years until her death on May 5, 1941. Samuel and Agnes Robinson built the house about 1898. Their daughter Ella Robinson was born in 1898. On the 1900 census, Samuel and Agnes have four children, Mable, Effie, Elliot and Ella living with them. Agnes was the mother of the three youngest children. Judge Spooner granted an absolute decree of divorce to Mrs. Agnes Robinson from her husband, Samuel Robinson on June 5, 1905, and she was allowed the custody of two children, a boy of eight and a girl of five, presumably Elliot and Ella. On the 1910 census, she and her three children, Effie, Elliot, and Ella, were living at 406 America Ave.
Edward Joseph Brouillard was born in Crookston and moved to the Bemidji area in 1917. He was a private in the infantry in World War I. Upon his return, Ella Robinson and he were married on Sept 25, 1919 and he moved into the Robinson home. During his career, he worked for the Crookston Lumber Co., the Bigelow Lumber Co., Robertson Lumber Co., and for E. E. Kenfield & Sons. He was a member of the Ralph Gracie Post and the Bemidji Fire Department.
Agnes died in 1941 and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery. Edward and Ella continued to live in the home. Edward, retired, and Ella were still there in 1964. They moved to the Northland Apartments after they were opened in the fall of 1968. Edward died on Dec 24, 1970 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Ella died in Indiana in 1976.