A House To Remember
A mid-century history of family and friends set around their childhood home in Munger Place, Dallas, Texas.
Do most people have a place they remember as home, more so than any other, which they look back on years later? For my family there is no doubt it was the big Prairie Style house with Tudor features at 5003 Tremont Street in Dallas, Texas.
Book Description
Do most people have a place they remember as home, more so than any other, which they look back on years later? For my family there is no doubt it was the big Prairie Style house with Tudor features at 5003 Tremont Street in Dallas, Texas. While we lived there only thirteen years from January 1941 to the summer of 1954, it held a unique place in the hearts of the many who were there. Since these were the years from age seven to twenty for me, it is easy to see that those formative years would hold a great influence on my development; yet it seems it also held a similar nostalgia for many others…
Table of Contents
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- Preface
- The House in Munger Place
- Wright's Influence in Munger Place
- The Second Decade is Underway
- The Twenties
- The Decade of the Depression Without End
- The Move to 5003 Tremont
- Postwar Munger Place
- The Munger Mongrels and Friends
- A Wedding to Remember
- The Winds of Change
- The Dark Years
- Restoration
- A Home Once More
- The Reception Again