niels peterson is an important figure in early tempe. having the house here makes it really special, because people can come in and walk through the rooms where he lived, and go out on the porch and visualize what rural tempe would've been light. -- been like. looking off in the distance and picturing rolling fields of alfalfa and picturing cattle grazing. so different than what it is today. i feel very lucky that we still have this home as a tangible tie, a direct tie to tempe's early days. to tempe's agricultural roots. really a reminder of where we came, both from as an agricultural town and with peterson being a danish immigrant, this house is a great symbol of tempe's diversity. showing that people came from a lot of different places because there were opportunities here, and they were able to establish themselves here. niels and susanna peterson, they never had children of their home -- of their own to inherit the house. when they passed away in the 1920's, the closest relative to inherit the house was a man named edwin decker. he