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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.

     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

     The T.C. Brown house, completed in

     900, 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.

     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.

     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.

     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.

    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.
 

    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

   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.