At a time when only one house stood on the south side of 16th on the 200 block, Annie and Phil D. Brewer purchased these lots from Anton Classen. The cost of the land was $4.500.

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Phil was born June 18, 1861, in Hackett, Arkansas. He studied law and was elected to the Arkansas Legislature in 1891. He married Annie Garner in 1894. One year later, when the federal government established a court deep in the heart of Indian Territory at McAlester, Phil moved his firm to the Choctaw Nation.

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There he built a solid legal and political reputation in the territory. As a reward he was named Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a position he retained from 1911 to 1915. In 1922, when he built the home on 16th, he was a law partner of Edgar S. Vaught. The Brewer household at the time included daughter, Emily, her husband, Dr. Edward P. Allen, and their three children.

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Judge Brewer died in 1932, but the Allens remained in the home until 1948. Thirty years later, it was purchased by Renate and Charles Wiggin, who updated the kitchen and bathrooms, converted a sleeping porch into a walk-in closet, modernized the circular solarium, and generally renovated the historic home.