This home was built by G.A. Nichols in 1919 and sold that same year to Zennie Hirsch, president of the Oklahoma Electrical Supply Company. When the Reynolds purchased it in2009, they became the home's tenth owners. Having moved to Oklahoma City from Boston, the Reynolds were impressed by the neighborhood’s sidewalks, tree-lined streets, and historic homes.

Originally the three-bedroom, one-bathroom house had a front porch, like so many others in the neighborhood and like every other house Nichols built on the north side of the400 block of 20th Street. But in 1947 the then-owners replaced the porch with a brick entryway containing a coat closet. The distinctive textured bricks from the porch's columns (which match the chimney) were reused to construct the exterior of the entry. At the same time the owners added a full bathroom and walk-in closet just off the dining room. In 1954 they turned half of the primary bedroom's sleeping porch into a bathroom with a tiled shower. 

When the Reynolds purchased the Colonial Revival home it needed extensive renovation. The downstairs bathroom was inoperable, the shower in the primary bathroom leaked through the living room's ceiling below, and the garage was on the verge of collapse. The backyard was so overgrown that one couldn't see the back fence when looking out the kitchen windows.

Over the years, the Reynolds renovated all three bathrooms, built a new garage with a home-office/playroom, remodeled the kitchen, and landscaped the yard. During the kitchen remodel, they closed off the saddleback stairs that went down into the kitchen and moved the basement door to provide more contiguous counterspace. They also removed a wall to join the small mudroom, dining nook, and tiny kitchen to create one large, open area that has become the heart of the home. 

The Reynolds also added a back deck with pergola and built a brick patio with antique bricks found on the property (some of which, marked "O.T." for" Oklahoma Territory," were manufactured prior to Oklahoma statehood).

Emily and Chad were both creative entrepreneurs whose businesses and artistic pursuit began here. Chad was a poet and typewriter artist whose studio was in the sitting room off the primary bedroom.

Emily is the founder of Anonymous Fine Art, a gallery in Midtown OKC specializing in anonymous and outsider artwork from around the world. Prior to opening a brick-and-mortar gallery, Emily hosted many art open houses here. She is also a ceramic artist featured at Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center. Emily and Chad featured the home on the 2022 Historic Home Tour.

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