This historic house is located on Columbia and Lawson streets in the town of Sumas in an area called Johnson's addition. It was built by Russ Lambert in 1891 on the banks of Johnson Creek, where two fruit trees still stand.

Although lake and swamp once covered most of the land, there was also a considerable area that because of natural flooding was a wide open grassland. This gave the city its name which means "Land of no trees".

For more information about the region, check out the Bellingham Report.