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Robert Shields (born c. , who owned a shingle mill in Bellingham, erected this house for himself and his wife, Augusta J. Shields, in the new Colonial Revival Style, a sharply simplified departure from the complexities of the Queen Anne Style. Shields was Canadian by birth, and came to the US about 1880. According to the US Census of 1910, he had been naturalized by that time. Robert and Augusta had six children, five of whom survived, and all lived in this residence in 1910.

In 1910, the US Census indicated that at least four working-class employees of a local shingle mill, perhaps that owned by Shields, lived close by to his house at 2215 Utter Street.

PCAD id: 19119