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The brick house located at 2006 Cleveland Rd. was erected at the 1935 Greater Cleveland Small Home Show held in the massive Cleveland Public Auditorium Exhibition Hall. It became an award winning architectural design and the house was given away as a prize during a slogan contest held at the 1935 Greater Cleveland Small Home Show sponsored by the Builders’ Exchange.

Among the thousands of people who decided to enter the slogan contest for a chance to win a house was Daisy Scott, a Cleveland resident. While she viewed the house from the balcony of the auditorium she thought up her slogan on the spur of the moment. She wrote it down, submitted the slogan, left the show and forgot about it, thinking her chances of winning were slim amongst the thousands of entries. In fact, when officials from the Builders’ Exchange called and asked her to return to the auditorium, she was puzzled by the request and told them she could not return unless it was really important. The reply from the officials was that they thought it was very important that she come back. Daisy Scott did not know what all the fuss was about until she returned to the auditorium and learned that her slogan, “THE HOME COMPLETE, WHERE TASTE AND BUDGET MEET.” had been declared the winner.

Having won the house, Daisy Scott was not quite sure what to do with it. The house had to be removed from the Exhibition Hall when the show was over. So, Daisy called her sister, Ida May Scott, a resident of Wooster, Ohio who worked as a court stenographer in the Wayne County Common Pleas Court, to get her thoughts on what she could do with the “prize” house. Together, the sisters, Daisy and Ida Scott, decided to go into a partnership on the house. They would buy a lot of land in Wooster, pay to have the house dismantled and shipped to Wooster, and contracted Theodore Bogner to reassemble the house. It was no small feat but the sisters did it. They bought lot number 3327, for about $1,545 according to tax stamps on the original deed, in the Bloomington Heights allotment and had the house re-built on the northwest corner of Cleveland Rd. and Ihrig Ave.