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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    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 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    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 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    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 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 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 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.
 


 

 

 

    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 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  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.