The News and Observer of September 12, 1909, listed Walter Woollcott as as one of the clients for whom Stephens had contracted to build a house before his company failed. Woolcott, a dry goods merchant, was listed at 502 S. Boylan Ave. in the 1909 city directory. The 2-story house with its broad porch with stout pillars was one of the first houses in the Boylan Heights suburb.