The 1910 city directory listed the resident of 2492 Scottwood as Thomas Tracy, the vice-president of Ransom & Randolph. George Sperry, a photographer, lived here by 1918 along with Pauline Sperry, a public school teacher.
2844 Scottwood near Collins Street was built in 1923. The home was erected on lot #4 of J. P. Coates' Parkwood Heights Addition. According to a 1924 Polk City Directory, the first residents of the home were Clarence M. Davis and his wife Bessie. Mr. Davis was a salesman for the R. A. Bartley Company which was a wholesale grocery business and importer of Japan teas. Interestingly, they become owners of record in 1938.