In 1905, Denton’s Tripp-Graham Home Was a Wedding Gift. Today its Interior Is the Real Gift

Now this is an estate. But not really an estate estate if we have Google weigh in. I’m reporting this in real time because Google, get your act together. Off the bat there are three contradicting definitions. Since one serves my purpose the most, we’ll go with it compliments of lawinsider.com: An estate home means a single-family dwelling with five or more bedrooms.

BUT IS IT AN ESTATE?

Honorable Mention definitions also include Investopedia.com for “a historical home of a prominent family.” WHICH THIS ONE ALSO IS. I’ll summarize…This home is called the Tripp-Graham House on historic W. Oak Street in Denton. It was a wedding gift for Nola Graham from her parents who lived across the street at the time. If anyone has a time machine, let me know because I’ll take a WHOLE HOME as a wedding gift, easy. There’s also a basement with a furnace making it “one of the first centrally heated homes in Denton.”

The exterior is all classic powder blue siding with white trim. A huge porch for receiving guests or if you’re Nola Graham, waving to your parents across the street in their home known as the house of seven gables. (Their home, one of the most famous of the era, burned down. I low-key suspect it was Nola because hello, parents across the street. To quote our dear editor Joanna England, YIKES ON BIKES.)

The first nod that something with this home is a little elevated are the leaded glass door and windows. Then on the inside, holy crap, the inside. Very recently updated, it’s spectacular. When the sellers took ownership over 7 years ago, it was a classic Victorian interior. Lots of white, a small kitchen, a gabled roof that formed the most charming ceilings in the children’s rooms. It was a wonderful home.

Updated And Elevated

Now it’s breathtaking. I can’t remember the last time I saw a Victorian home with this level of finish out. It’s so pretty. They removed walls, reconfigured rooms and added warmth with a fresh wall color. The new kitchen is incredible – sleek black lower cabinets with white upper cabinetry. The deep turquoise jewel-toned room was always there, but there are so many details that have been added.

They also had plans to add a wine cellar in the basement, but now the next owner can swipe that idea. OH, and there’s a income producing property in the backyard. It’s a one bedroom, one bathroom Carriage House apartment that rents for $112 a night or around $2,000 a month.

A famous historical home on an even more famous street in Denton and on a corner lot no less. Jeff Withers of Withers-Howell has 705 W. Oak Street listed for $1.03 million.