Trying To Help A Friend ID This "Donkey" Cover.

It appears that the image was 'stitched' together. And good point BillW2, we have to be careful about a lot of the online 'historical' information we dig up. Much of the information on Ancestry.com, while interesting and fun to read, is simply incorrect. It is not vetted but more importantly much of it comes from old archives which were often fudged due to the morals of the times. For example, you rarely have to go back more than a generation or two before children born out of wedlock are attributed to incorrect parents.
Don

The longer I look at it, the more I think I agree that the image was stitched together. Either that, or there is a serious settling in the foundation. But the bush in front obscures the foundation so I cannot tell if the discontinuity continues below the middle of the screen door or not.

But the thing that stands out to me is that the windows and siding look too new to date to the 1940's, let alone the 1910's. At some time more recently I think the house was remodeled. It seems to be on a slab, and the original structure may well date to the 1910's, though.

It could be a remodeled "shotgun"?

Google street view image, they often look like that.