The Garland Landmark Society, Inc.
Homes
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Cedar Croft, the farm home of G. W. and Kate James, was built ca. 1870 beside Duck Creek southwest of the Forest Ln. bridge. Constructed with lumber hauled by wagon from Jefferson and fastened with pegs and square nails, the house was demolished ca. 1940.
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The
Festus Tinsley house provided family
comfort in Victorian vernacular style. Mr. Tinsley's home place was situated on the north side of old Highway 66 near its intersection with Lavon Dr. Land belonging to his father, W.A. Tinsley, underlay Garland's predecessor township of Embree, including the present town square.
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The Pickett house, shown here ca. 1905, sat on a farm located in the southwest quadrant of present Shiloh and Beltline Roads. Its Victorian vernacular architecture is typical of local structures built in the 1890s.
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The Daniel Bechtol home,
built in the 1890s, anchored 310 acres fronting on the south side of present Kingsley Road between Duck Creek and Saturn Road. As with many houses of that day, rain water was captured from gutters on the house for storage in a cistern. This supplemented what the family could pump from a well.
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The Crossman house, shown ca. 1960, stood at the southwest corner of present Glenbrook and Ave. D from ca. 1893 until it was demolished in 1968 to provide room for First Baptist Church parking. The Queen Anne/Victorian structure was built for his bride by insurance and real estate broker George W. Crossman, Sr., who also served as mayor and as postmaster.
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The T.C. Brown house, completed in
1900,
faced east
onto 9th St. between present Main St. and Avenue A. Graciously sized to accommodate reunions with the Brown's seven children and their families, the house was demolished ca. 1950 to make room for a Safeway grocery store. Mr. Brown was a Garland farmer and lumber dealer who served as secretary of the first GISD board of trustees.
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The Peter W. Handley family home stood in the northeast quadrant of present Glenbrook and Ave. D., a stone’s throw from the business district of Embree, one of Garland’s predecessor townships. Handley owned and operated a drug store on the west side of the square.
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The
Bullock homeplace, shown here near
the time
of its construction in 1913, stood on the north side of present Forest Ln., then known as Beltline Rd., between Jupiter and Plano Rds. R.L. Poole and Son, contractors, built the frame house for Charles E. and Mary Bullock.
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The W. C. Kingsley home typified the Airplane Bungalow version of the Craftsman style. Built in the WWI era, the house anchored the Kingsley Ranch, which lay south of present Kingsley Road between Duck Creek and present Saturn Road. Old timers place the location near the point where Hawthorne and Branch Drives intersected.
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The Watson family home on Avenue C. between 9th St. and present Glenbrook was designed and built in the early ‘20s by Hattie Flook before her marriage to R. C. Watson. In this mid-‘30s photo the couple’s daughter May Beth poses in front of the home, which was razed ca. 1968 to allow construction of
the Madeira Apartments.
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The C. M. Brown home was built ca. 1923 on the SW corner of 12th Street and the newly opened Bankhead Highway route, now Main Street. It was later occupied by James M. and Edith Beaver before being demolished to make way for the Garland Federal Savings & Loan building. Inwood National Bank now operates on the site.
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The
cyclone that struck Garland early on
Sunday, May 9, 1927, created scenes like this one. The heaviest damage occurred north of present Main St. and west of downtown business district as a dozen homes were damaged and another dozen demolished.
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Storm cellars, such as this one still found at Carney and Larry Drs., mushroomed beside houses in Garland and the surrounding area after the cyclone struck on May 9, 1927, killing 14 and injuring many more. But some preferred their chances above ground over the thought of whatever crawled beneath it.
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