Willetta Stellmacher
The historic Stubbs House overlooks Swiss Avenue from its perch on La Vista Drive. It’s one of the most extraordinary homes I’ve ever seen anywhere, and in my opinion, it’s the best house to hit the market in a decade. The Jacobean Tudor house was built for paving magnate Robert Stubbs and his wife, Marie,…
Read MoreYou remember our post about the estate sale over at 6243 La Vista. The home, a historic treasure that had been lovingly preserved by Willetta Stellmacher, will hit the market soon, listed by none-other than Elizabeth Mast.
Mast, the foremost Realtor for the Swiss Avenue area, plans to take her time freshening the Landmark Stubbs home and staging it to show off its colorful history and beautiful details. She plans to list the five-bedroom, four-full-and-two-half-bath estate this coming April for $1.5 million. Mast will stage the home using some of Stellmacher’s incredible collection of antiques and showbiz memorabilia.
Read MoreA former Vaudeville performer and showgirl who rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Lawrence Welk, Willetta Stellmacher led a colorful life. Besides being known as an astute businesswoman, Stellmacher was hailed as a tough-as-nails landlord at the apartments she owned — and as the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate says, a “pistol-packin’ mama.”
While we’re terribly sad to hear of such a wonderful and amazing person passing, we are so intrigued to see the estate sale organized by Attics to Basements. It’s advertised as containing “Fine art work, Ivory, Jadeite/Jade, Asian Antiques, French Antiques, 6,000sq feet of quality collectibles and antiques!”
Read MoreA former Vaudeville performer and showgirl who rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Lawrence Welk, Willetta Stellmacher led a colorful life. Besides being known as an astute businesswoman, Stellmacher was hailed as a tough-as-nails landlord at the apartments she owned — and as the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate says, a “pistol-packin’ mama.”
While we’re terribly sad to hear of such a wonderful and amazing person passing, we are so intrigued to see the estate sale organized by Attics to Basements. It’s advertised as containing “Fine art work, Ivory, Jadeite/Jade, Asian Antiques, French Antiques, 6,000sq feet of quality collectibles and antiques!”
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