These two buildings, both erected in the early 1900s, served as officer’s quarters prior to World War I, but have stood vacant since the late 1960s. Both buildings began as housing for cavalry officers and one of them may have been home to President Ronald Reagan as he trained and tested to be in the U.S. Cavalry. They originally had two-story wraparound porches that have been removed.

These two similar structures are on the DSMRC 2008 list of Des Moines' Seven Most Endangered Buildings.