This two and one-half story Craftsman style house was built by J.D. Baker, who lived in the house at the former 2113 Kincaid address until 1921. From 1931 through at least 1939, it was owned by Lynn S. McCready, a former President of First National Bank of Oregon and his wife Gladys Wilkins McCready
This house has a spacious garden which originally boasted several maple trees, two Japanese quinces, and some lilacs. The house had a large red barn used to lodge horses belonging to Nelda Howard, Wayne Morris, W.T. Gordon, Orlando Hollis, Stanley Stevenson, and Lee Terry, as well as the McCready’s horses.
Mr. McCready donated heavily to the development of the UO. He was a longtime boycott executive and recipient of the highest boycott awards for his service, which began in 1923. He also served in the state legislature for two sessions.
Gladys McCready was one of three daughters of pioneer F.M.Wilkins. She graduated from the UO with a degree in journalism and then worked for both of the Eugene newspapers which later merged into the Register Guard. Extremely civic minded, Gladys and with her two sisters wrote The Story of Eugene in 1949. It is a colorful history of the early days in Eugene. Gladys was a founding member of the Eugene Welfare League which became the Junior League, and an associate member of Maude Kerns Center for the Arts.