TRBell
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04-27-12 09:32 PM - Post#148582
Dallas Morning News online story about the house at Stacy & 75! Unfortunately you have to be a subscriber to read the entire story. I do have a pdf of the story
Turn of the Century Farmhouse Still Turning Heads at Busy Intersection
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Lisatexmom
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04-30-12 11:03 AM - Post#148638
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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/a lle...
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cp
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04-30-12 11:10 AM - Post#148642
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I'd love to read the whole article. So, if you're able to post a link to the .PDF, that would be wonderful.
Many thanks!
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Lisatexmom
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04-30-12 11:15 AM - Post#148645
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If you can - look at the link I attached it has the full article.
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cp
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04-30-12 11:39 AM - Post#148647
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Well, I tried both and got the condensed version each time. Looks like I can either log in via Facebook or sign up on DMN's website for full view. Facebook is firewalled from company network, and I'll pass on creating a DMN account. So, I'll just wait for now. But, thanks for responding... 
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montag
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04-30-12 12:10 PM - Post#148653
In response to cp
Wow - it isn't just registering at the website - you must be a subscriber of one of their delivered papers. I have never seen anything like that.
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montag
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04-30-12 12:13 PM - Post#148655
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Wow - it isn't just registering at the website - you must be a subscriber of one of their delivered papers. I have never seen anything like that.
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cp
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04-30-12 12:17 PM - Post#148656
In response to montag
Wow - it isn't just registering at the website - you must be a subscriber of one of their delivered papers. I have never seen anything like that.
I'm not a subscriber to the DMN paper. So, I suppose I'll just wait to see if one of the other local news stations report on it...
I'm just curious to know the point of the article. Strictly for entertainment/historical reporting, or is there some kind of development planned with the Stacy name incorporated into it?
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montag
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04-30-12 12:19 PM - Post#148657
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I am curious too. Will wait to see if any other media picks it up.
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TRBell
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04-30-12 12:22 PM - Post#148658
In response to montag
It is mainly a historical piece. There is no planned development. There are 75 acres at that corner worth $10,000,000.
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TRBell
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04-30-12 12:25 PM - Post#148659
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It ran on the front page of the metro section in Sundays paper
Edited by SAHM2three on 04-30-12 12:27 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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cp
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04-30-12 12:26 PM - Post#148660
In response to TRBell
It is mainly a historical piece. There is no planned development. There are 75 acres at that corner worth $10,000,000.
Wow! Talk about worth and then some.
Makes me think of the movie "Up". Although the house is still there, I'm curious to know how much longer it will remain.
If walls could talk...
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TRBell
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04-30-12 12:28 PM - Post#148661
In response to cp
Wouldn't you love to know how much they paid originally?! It has to be pennies on the dollars it's worth today!
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rw
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04-30-12 12:31 PM - Post#148662
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By JAMES RAGLAND
JAMES RAGLAND The Dallas Morning News
Staff Writer
[email protected]
Published: 27 April 2012 03:30 PM
Related ALLEN — Just west of Central Expressway at Stacy Road sits a turn-of-the-century farmhouse that long has captured the attention of motorists buzzing through Allen.
The small frame house — a rustic relic from a farming lifestyle eclipsed by modern development — is the sole structure remaining on more than 75 acres of undeveloped farmland now worth millions of dollars.
The property is owned by descendants of the late Doyle K. and Veda Stacy, a once-prominent family whose influence still ripples through the Collin County town today.
“In terms of the house, we get a lot of questions about it. People just see it and ask about it,” said Dan Bowman, assistant director of the nonprofit Allen Economic Development Corp.
“It gives you an image of what our history has been.”
At a bustling intersection now bounded by an outlet mall to the north as well as The Village at Allen and The Village at Fairview just east of Central, the solitary farmhouse sticks out.
“I know it’s a curiosity,” said Dorothy Stacy Woods, daughter of Doyle K. and Veda. “People want to know what’s going to happen to it, and I just don’t know right now.”
Woods, citing illnesses in her family, declined to grant an extensive interview about the property and her family’s history in Allen.
For now, the small home is occupied by a tenant who has lived there for several years. But the house has a much more colorful, intriguing history.
“It was on the property when my family bought it,” said Woods, who lives in Highland Park.
For years, several people familiar with the Stacy family said, the little house was occupied by a woman who once worked as a maid for the Stacy family.
“Georgia Porter was her name,” said Virginia Petefish, whose family used to live directly across Stacy Road and still owns property nearby. “She was a lovely, lovely lady.”
Petefish and others said Porter lived in the house until she fell ill and her family came to get her.
“The Stacys’ children and grandchildren loved her, and they took care of her in her old age,” Petefish said. “She stayed there until she was not able to stay there any longer.”
Some locals familiar with the Stacy family said Veda may even have stayed in the little farmhouse for a spell.
When asked about Porter and the story behind the house, Woods said, “I don’t have a whole long story to tell.”
The Stacy family, according to two local historians, apparently began buying farmland in Collin County in the ’30s.
Woods said her parents built a main house deep in the southwest corner of what is now Central Expressway and Stacy Road (named after her family) in 1943.
“They didn’t live there until they built the home,” she said.
Years ago, when her only sibling, Doyle S. Stacy, a Dallas physician, was still living, the Stacy clan gave the main house to someone who paid to relocate it. The house was moved to a small town north of Allen.
“It was kind of a long house,” Woods said. “So it had to be cut in half.”
“It was a one-story,” she added. “And there was a two-story part with a garage attached with a breezeway.”
The Stacy family moved to Allen when it was an unincorporated small town of a few hundred people. Now, the town boasts nearly 90,000 residents.
“They certainly played a large part in the economy back then because they owned a grain elevator and a cotton gin elevator,” said Tom Keener, cultural arts manager for the Allen Public Library and a former city planner.
Ken Byler, a 79-year-old native of Allen, said Doyle K. Stacy and his wife rose to prominence as they fed the local economy and contributed to many civic causes, especially the local schools.
“They had a lot of power,” Byler said. “The power was not only in the money but the land they owned.”
Today, the Stacy family, through two limited partnerships, Brookside Partners Ltd. and Nimbus Partners LP, owns about 170 acres of farmland valued on Collin County tax rolls at more than $20 million, according to property records.
The three tracts at the southwest corner of Central and Stacy, now valued at more than $10 million on tax rolls, were rezoned from “agricultural” to “commercial corridor” 25 years ago.
To own that much land in a town so small means the Stacy family could remain a key player in Allen’s future for years to come.
“It would be anybody’s guess in terms of when that land will be developed and sold,” Bowman said. “It’s definitely a valuable piece of real estate, and it could stay the way it is for a while.”
As for the little house that still dots the property, Keener said it is bound to draw attention for as long as it remains.
“With all the development around it, it just jumps out at you,” he said. “But what I most appreciate about it is the history that it represents, and I’m anxious to learn more about it.”
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AA
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04-30-12 12:32 PM - Post#148663
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I got in through this link and I don't have a subscription. Either way, I copied and pasted for you to read.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http:/ /www.da...
I see RW beat me to it so I'll delete my copy :)
Edited by AA on 04-30-12 12:37 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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cp
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04-30-12 12:42 PM - Post#148665
In response to AA
A very interesting article for sure. Thanks to both of you for providing the full text.
Just out of curiousity, I wonder if Rick Stacy (Stacy Furniture) is related to this same branch of Stacys. If I remember correctly, the Allen location is the original one prior to the expansion to Grapevine and now Plano...
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Lisatexmom
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04-30-12 02:35 PM - Post#148670
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I googled mine too and read the whole story and posted the link - but when you click on "All" the links you can't read it.
Isn't that weird... 
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rw
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04-30-12 02:37 PM - Post#148671
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Stacy Furniture came here from Grapevine...not sure if they are related...
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cp
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05-01-12 08:56 AM - Post#148689
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Stacy Furniture came here from Grapevine...not sure if they are related...
Ah, okay. I thought it was the other way around, Allen first.
Maybe a coincidence...
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05-01-12 10:09 AM - Post#148695
In response to cp
The Stacy family is actually from Tennessee and they live in Southlake.
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