D. D. George House - Plano
The George House was moved to Old City Park in Dallas. It was located near present-day Plano City Hall.
HOME DRESSED FOR PAST
IT’S CHRISTMAS THE WAY IT WAS
by Ruth Eyre
Dallas Times Herald, December 25, 1983
....At Old City Park [Dallas], a picturesque, Queen Anne-style house, called the George House, depicts what Christmas must have been like eight decades ago. Its rooms, furnished and restored with an authenticity that even includes flowery, Victorian-style wallpaper, are decorated with pine cones, greenery and dried flowers an magnolia leaves....
After the George House was moved to Old City Park in 1982, the members of her needlework guild made 50 of the decorations, which took from three to five hours of handwork apiece....
They chose paper embroidery ornaments to stay in keeping with the history of the George House. David Colonel “D. C.” George, a Plano hardware store owner, built the house as a wedding present for his bride. The house remained in the George family until the death of George’s son in 1974, when it was sold to the city of Plano. It was moved to Old City Park after futile efforts to preserve the house at its Plano location.
At Old City Park, the house was restored to depict a typical middle class family home in North Central Texas at the turn of the century. At the time it was built, the Queen Anne style was very popular, and many materials, such as its doors and its wooden “gingerbread” porch decorations, could be ordered through catalogs from Sears, Roebuck & Co. or Montgomery Ward.
Inside, the house reflects the Victorian age in Dallas from its lace curtains to its ornamental mantels....
IT’S CHRISTMAS THE WAY IT WAS
by Ruth Eyre
Dallas Times Herald, December 25, 1983
....At Old City Park [Dallas], a picturesque, Queen Anne-style house, called the George House, depicts what Christmas must have been like eight decades ago. Its rooms, furnished and restored with an authenticity that even includes flowery, Victorian-style wallpaper, are decorated with pine cones, greenery and dried flowers an magnolia leaves....
After the George House was moved to Old City Park in 1982, the members of her needlework guild made 50 of the decorations, which took from three to five hours of handwork apiece....
They chose paper embroidery ornaments to stay in keeping with the history of the George House. David Colonel “D. C.” George, a Plano hardware store owner, built the house as a wedding present for his bride. The house remained in the George family until the death of George’s son in 1974, when it was sold to the city of Plano. It was moved to Old City Park after futile efforts to preserve the house at its Plano location.
At Old City Park, the house was restored to depict a typical middle class family home in North Central Texas at the turn of the century. At the time it was built, the Queen Anne style was very popular, and many materials, such as its doors and its wooden “gingerbread” porch decorations, could be ordered through catalogs from Sears, Roebuck & Co. or Montgomery Ward.
Inside, the house reflects the Victorian age in Dallas from its lace curtains to its ornamental mantels....
