Historical Homes
Abilene is a city in West Texas with a rich history. In the beginning it was literally the Wild West with “cowboys, gun fights, and saloon brawls” an everyday occurrence. Oddly enough, it was also a fledgling art scene with “many talented musicians and artists making their home in the city.” Now, it’s a little…
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Sometimes, as frequent Wednesday WTF readers know, we find a house that looks very lovely and normal from the curb – like the Vermont home we are going to take a gander at this week. This home was built just shortly after the Revolutionary War, which is what happened the first time people in America…
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To say the W.D. Smith home in McKinney, built in 1902, has been around for a great deal of North Texas history is an understatement — from its early beginnings as a farmhouse to its life as an abode for an alleged bootlegger and later as home to a McKinney mayor, the quintessential Victorian farmhouse…
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Not every historic home in Dallas meets the wrecking ball — some are lovingly cared for, carefully updated, and enjoying third, fourth, and even fifth lives as new generations of Dallasites back up the moving truck and begin their lives there. This week, we’d like to show you three open houses, all homes that are…
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Driving a house down Spring Creek Parkway takes patience and a lot more shimmying than you’d think. “Nudge over to the left a foot,” Billy Lemons yells out over the radio. “I don’t want to jump that curb if I don’t have to.” Lemons moves houses for a living. His company, Lemons House Moving of…
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