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Unidentified Homes

Description: Several houses are pictured in the background. A man and a small child are standing in front of an area where houses or a large building had been torn down. A horse and buggy are in the lower left corner.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Wooden Wall and Doorway

Description: A dirty wooden wall has trash on the floor in front of it in an unknown derelict house. On the left side of the image is a doorway into another room that was painted white, but the paint is now peeling and cracking. The house is one of many moved by Denton County House Movers around 1970. They (DCHM) think that it could have come from one of two area: near the University of North Texas campus, or from Pacific Street, which was moved to make way for the expansion of South Carroll Boulevard.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Corner in a Derelict House

Description: A corner where trash lies on the floor and the wallpaper has fallen down in an unknown derelict house on an unknown site. This house had been abandoned for some time and "squatters", students, and others had lived in it. The location was somewhere near the University of North Texas campus and it was moved for their expansion. The time was around 1970.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Wooden Ceiling and Window

Description: The beams of a wooden ceiling take up the top half of the image while the bottom half is comprised of a white window with no screen or glass and door off of its hinges laying next to the entry-way in an unknown house.
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Door and Two Windows

Description: Interior view of a room in a house at an unknown location. The house had been located near the University of North Texas campus, but was moved to make way for further expansion. It was moved by Denton County House Movers around 1970, possibly to area on far south Locust St (and may still be there). At that time an entire house could be purchased for $50. This home was bought by someone to be turned into a rental property. A closed door is in the center of the frame and there are rectan… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Bennett, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Portrait of Wiggs' Family Home at the corner of Blount and McKinney Streets in Denton, Texas]

Description: Frame home with Mr. and Mrs. Z. Wiggs and three children, Rua, Noah, and Grace, in the yard. Written on the back, "The Wiggs family home located at 218 Blount St. in 1912 with Mr. & Mrs. Wiggs and 3 of their children Rua, Noah, and Grace (Grace who was later killed in 1925 in an early car wreck in the western part of Denton County). Blount St. no longer exists, but it used to run north-south from McKinney to Sycamore Street.
Date: 1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Bayless-Selby House Interior]

Description: Photograph of the interior of the Bayless-Selby house showing the front entryway, a door with a stained glass window in it, and a staircase, taken before the home was moved to the Denton County Historical Park.
Date: unknown
Creator: Glover, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Bayless-Selby House]

Description: Photograph of a crowd of people standing and sitting under tents in front of the Bayless-Selby House, a two-story house with a wrap-around porch, during its arrival at the Denton County Historical Park. There are balloons attached to the house's support posts and several children are holding balloons as well.
Date: June 18, 1998
Creator: Cabrales, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.213301 -97.136163
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Bayless-Selby House Exterior]

Description: Photograph of the back of the Bayless-Selby house, a two-story wooden house with a row of windows and vines growing on the side of it, taken before it was moved to the Denton County Historical Park.
Date: unknown
Creator: Glover, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Family and People with Bayless-Selby House]

Description: Photograph of n unidentified family walking across the grass towards the Bayless-Selby house, an old two-story house with a wrap-around porch, which has just been moved to the Denton County Historical Park. There several other people standing in the parking lot in front of the house and cars and trees in the background.
Date: June 1998
Creator: Glover, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.213009 -97.136710
Partner: Denton Public Library

[House on Fire]

Description: Photograph of a house on fire while fire fighters try to extinguish the flames with hoses; there is a large billow of black smoke coming from the house and several trees visible in the background.
Date: January 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Woman with Bayless-Selby House]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman standing in front of the Bayless-Selby house, an old two-story house with a wrap-around porch, which is still loaded on the Denton County House Movers truck. A young boy is standing on the porch in front of the door and there are signs for the moving company on the front and side of the house.
Date: June 1998
Creator: Glover, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 33.213124 -97.136268
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Trucks Moving Bayless-Selby House]

Description: Photograph of the Bayless-Selby house, a two-story house with a wrap-around porch, being moved on a red truck along Carroll Boulevard. There are various City of Denton utility trucks and a cherry-picker in the foreground and background (ready to move power lines out of the way and reinstall them once the house has passed by) and trees are visible on both sides of the road and on the median in the background.
Date: June 1998
Creator: Glover, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Unidentified Girl Standing on a Baluster]

Description: Snapshot of a girl acting silly while balancing on the concrete baluster of a Victorian home. In the background two more women can be seen on the porch.The library has numerous photos (A-155 through A-165), all of the same size, that appear to have been removed from a scrapbook with black pages. The photos are taken all on the same front porch. The others are taken in the yard. The girls appear to be friends and of student age. We believe that this same girl appears in photo A-164 "Unidentified… more
Date: 1917~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Sycamore Street Before Bridge

Description: Sycamore Street in anticipation of the construction of the Sycamore Street Bridge. The road has been blocked off, but construction on the bridge has not yet started. Homes line either side of Sycamore Street which recedes back into the image down the center of the frame.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

Frame House with Horse and Buggy

Description: Snapshot of a frame house behind a picket fence with a horse-drawn buggy and two unidentified individuals in the yard. A horse-drawn wagon is in the foreground in front of the picket fence. We have a second photo of this house taken from a different perspective. A note on the back of it says "Cure's home". After looking through the census for anyone with the last name of "Cure" we did find a family living near Sanger, one J. H. Cure with a wife, Neomi. This is just speculation on our part, howe… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library
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