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Alamo Heights home removed from garden tour
An Alamo Heights home that was to be featured as part of a national Garden Conservancy tour has been removed as a stop after conservancy officials found discrepancies in the owner's suggestion that his homestead was once owned by a late art matron. (read more).
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written by Miss B , September 13, 2010
written by Miss B , September 13, 2010
Yall are getting off track on the dairy. Call Pat Hammond. she has stories of walking there as a child. hope that helps.
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written by Sarah , September 13, 2010
written by Sarah , September 13, 2010
Max will find more, but the only Harrisons I found in the census were in 1920, Jacob and Lilian on Crescent. He died in 1922 at 70, she was still there in the 1930 census. No newspaper articles or ads about the dairy. I wish we had some older maps of the area. Was the dairy named after Harrison Street or was Harrison Street named after the Harrison Dairy?
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written by cowgirlup , September 12, 2010
written by cowgirlup , September 12, 2010
Maxwell312
Do you know if the area in and around Harrison, Estes, part of Cambridge and Patterson was old Dairy farm.? My grandfather always said there was an old dairy farm named Harrison Dairy Farm on that site. Thanks.
Do you know if the area in and around Harrison, Estes, part of Cambridge and Patterson was old Dairy farm.? My grandfather always said there was an old dairy farm named Harrison Dairy Farm on that site. Thanks.
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written by Maxwell312 , September 09, 2010
written by Maxwell312 , September 09, 2010
I think it was Miss Jane who knew about the Gossips of the Country Club. Check with her.
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written by PL , September 09, 2010
written by PL , September 09, 2010
Maxwell 312
Good fine. Keep those updates coming! I did not know about Mrs. McNay rented properties to our WWII soldiers. If you find more on this please post.
Do you know why they changed Rosalie to Castano and when?
Thanks for digging and keep posting your discoveries.
Good fine. Keep those updates coming! I did not know about Mrs. McNay rented properties to our WWII soldiers. If you find more on this please post.
Do you know why they changed Rosalie to Castano and when?
Thanks for digging and keep posting your discoveries.
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written by Lawyer Lucy , September 09, 2010
written by Lawyer Lucy , September 09, 2010
Maxwell, are they gossiping about Marion at the Country Club again?
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written by Maxwell312 , September 09, 2010
written by Maxwell312 , September 09, 2010
UPDATE:
I located the street called Rosalie on a 1963 map of Alamo Heights. The street was renamed after that date to Castano.
If you believe some of the stories circulating about Marion McNay's love life, she was one busy woman!
written by Maxwell312 , August 19, 2010
Sarah, the Matron is right. McNay never owned the Joliet house. Most of the houses were purchased in the early 1940's and McNay rented them to soldiers as her part of the war effort since there was a housing shortage.
She willed the houses to the art museum and to the church when she died.
As an FYI = the houses given to the Art Museum were
227 Abiso
512 Aiso
344 Wildrose
925 Cambridge Oval
321 Bluebonnet
325 Bluebonnet
320 Rosalie ( I couldn't find this one).
The houses that went to the Church were:
125 Inslee
126 Tuxedo
521 Alta
107 E. Oakview
175 E. Elmview.
I located the street called Rosalie on a 1963 map of Alamo Heights. The street was renamed after that date to Castano.
If you believe some of the stories circulating about Marion McNay's love life, she was one busy woman!
written by Maxwell312 , August 19, 2010
Sarah, the Matron is right. McNay never owned the Joliet house. Most of the houses were purchased in the early 1940's and McNay rented them to soldiers as her part of the war effort since there was a housing shortage.
She willed the houses to the art museum and to the church when she died.
As an FYI = the houses given to the Art Museum were
227 Abiso
512 Aiso
344 Wildrose
925 Cambridge Oval
321 Bluebonnet
325 Bluebonnet
320 Rosalie ( I couldn't find this one).
The houses that went to the Church were:
125 Inslee
126 Tuxedo
521 Alta
107 E. Oakview
175 E. Elmview.
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written by Sarah , September 02, 2010
written by Sarah , September 02, 2010
I have to agree with Bungalow Betty. That was a great comeback!
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written by Bungalow Betty , September 02, 2010
written by Bungalow Betty , September 02, 2010
AH Matron DITTO! I am going to nominate your post for the best post of the month!
Too funny and too true!
Too funny and too true!
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written by AHMatron , September 02, 2010
written by AHMatron , September 02, 2010
Sarah, your going to have to take your own refresher course. It was all a big fat lie and everybody in town knows it. Spinning plates to try to distract us isn't going to work. You can't make it true even if he is your new best friend.
Good job, Tony! You know when the pigs start squealing you've stuck em good.
Good job, Tony! You know when the pigs start squealing you've stuck em good.
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written by Lawyer Lucy , September 02, 2010
written by Lawyer Lucy , September 02, 2010
Sarah will you please cease and desist? You are in enough trouble as is and Perry and I won't help out on this one.
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The house on my block (the 400 block of Corona) is also supposed to be an original farmhouse. Lots of big old pecan trees on our block.