"1939 House Interiors - Owner: W.H. Reuter - first floor rooms" This is a small dining room with a built-in china hutch, a fold-away table, and wicker chairs.
"Harvey McAlister homestead - 1870 - near intersection of McAlister & Cove Ave. La Grande, OR" [Photograph used in "History of Union County, Oregon" (page 40), edited and compiled by Bernal D. Hug.]
This appears to be the home the Reuters lived in when Bob was a child. The picture was taken in winter and shows the piles of snow in the yard and the icicles hanging from the roof.