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Original and today in Searcy Arkansas. Nicely maintained home then and now.

By Barbara S. Duncan

Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

November 23, 2009 11:27 AM

Having inherited a few old pictures of Searcy Arkansas houses that a widow was throwing away, I have posted a few on these blogs to see if Searcy residents recognize them. The designer of the houses had taken photos and saved the photos and the floor plans. Once he died the widow wasn't keeping them. I kept them from being lost forever.

Here's another picture of a newly built house.....or at least one that wasn't very old.

Old Searcy house

And here is the same house today. It appears largely unchanged, doesn't it. Those little trees really grew!!!

old Searcy house today

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Gene Allen, thanks for comment.

Charles, I did. Obviously, something has been done to this attic!

Elizabeth, it has been loved and attended to during the years.

Steve, it does look improved, doesn't it?

Steven, I'd think about 60 years.

Tony and Darcy, I like seeing the old vs the present. Too often the present is a parking lot!

Nov 23, 2009 11:31 PM

Anonymous

Anita Fuller

Don't anyone depend on me to figure out WHERE it is and WHO lived in it! I don't have a clue. But love them, both, of course. May even like the "before" better. Come on, Don - or Harold Gene, Bob, Billy, Marcia, Sherry.....somebody.

Anita Fuller

Nov 24, 2009 12:04 AM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Hmmm, no sidewalks. Might be out Pleasure St. on Hwy 36 on the way to Joy and Harmony and Romance or in the other direction toward Hardly University in Scarcely Arkansas.

Sorry, I couldn't help throwing all than in to your wonderful blog about Searcy's homes, Barbara.

Hitting the road today toward Grapevine, TX via Bossier City, LA for Turkey Day with family.

Happy Thanksgiving, All!

Nov 24, 2009 01:09 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, better than doing a crossword puzzle, isn't it? LOl

Don, you are traveling way too much! Your comment is fun. Sorry you can't serve in the capacity of city sleuth because of another travel necessity. I think Anita will figure it out.

Nov 24, 2009 02:36 AM

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Harold Gene Sullivan

Its got me stumped.

Nov 24, 2009 06:18 AM

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Anita Fuller

I am now in Barnes and Noble bookstore in Fayetteville and am still trying to figure out where this house is. I've asked Marcia Bagarella: she doesn't know. But don't tell us just yet, Barbara.....let us stew over it a little while longer. Maybe Billy will know. East end or West end?

Anita Fuller

Nov 24, 2009 07:42 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Harold Gene, we don't need to have them too easy!

Anita, I do think you need to stew longer. LOL

Nov 24, 2009 08:49 AM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Hello from Grapevine, TX. Paula thinks it looks like the Christian home. Close?

Don

Nov 25, 2009 08:10 AM

Anonymous

Harold Gene Sullivan

I don't think it is Jimmy and Don Christian's house. Their house was on West Arch, a paved street, where the West Side Church of Christ is located. The other Christian lived on West Race on the corner of Gum, another paved street. Maybe Paula knows another Christian family.

Nov 25, 2009 03:36 PM

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Anita Fuller

It is definietely NOT the Christian house, as Gene said, Paula. Good try, though

O.K. Barbara: I'm thinking it's way out East Market St.....beyond Harding, where lots of the Harding professors and teachers lived. Perry Mason and his wife Eliz. Mason lived out there, in a house painted maroonish. Am I even close? I think I've stewed long enough. Give me something to be thankful for today: I am thankful to know where that blue house is on Barbara's blog.

Anita Fuller

Nov 26, 2009 12:33 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Harold Gene and Anita,

Christian home? Nope. Near Harding? Good guess. I know where Mrs. Mason lived and drive by it every day on the way to work. Don has been too busy traveling to travel the streets of Searcy with the google guy. Happy Thanksgiving all.

Nov 26, 2009 08:23 AM

Anonymous

SHS 51

Thanks for the Harding clue, Barbara. I've been thinking: east side of town on a north south street with the house facing west. I thought about North Grand avenue but didn't take the time to do a street view. With the Harding clue, i quickly found that the second house on the right north of East Race looks an awful like the house in the later picture. 406(?) North Grand, Searcy. Van Patten's lived a couple of doors north.

Bob C.

Nov 26, 2009 11:37 AM

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Harold Gene Sullivan

Bingo, Bob. Good find.

Nov 26, 2009 02:05 PM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Bob, you take the prize this time. I have not been here long enough to remember it's construction but I believe it was built by the cabinet man who built so many cabinets in new construction in Searcy back in the 50's. Martin? may have been his last name.

Harold Gene, he did good, didn't he??

Nov 26, 2009 11:45 PM

Don Thompson

Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Way to go Bob. I wanted to travel the streets of Searcy but the turkey got in the way.

406 N. Grand

Nov 27, 2009 12:08 AM

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Anita Fuller

Whew! This conundrum has been spoiling my Thanksgiving holidays. I wasn't sure you were ever going to tell us Barbara. Thanks to super sleuth, Bob(by) Collins and of course, Don!

Lawrence Martin, 406 N. Grand....phone 848.

Anita Fuller

Nov 27, 2009 03:46 AM

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Billy Fuller

Anita, accor5ding to my sister (your sister-in-law) the house now belongs to Dr. Bobby Coker, a retired education professor at Harding.

Nov 27, 2009 05:22 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Don, you're fantastic. I need to learn how to run with that little google man a whole lot better than I do. That's a great picture!!

Anita, I never told, did I? The super sleuths need one tiny hint and away they do. I've got a difficult one coming up, though. Stay tuned.

Billy, Dr. Coker has taken great care of that house and has been there a long time. I hope he doesn't mind our putting it on this blog. My kids played with some of his kids. They're a great family.

Nov 27, 2009 07:28 AM

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Anita Fuller

I know Bobby Coker and didn't know he now lives there. We were classmates at Harding in the late 50's. I THINK and I"m pretty sure I'm right: he worked in the dining hall for Mother, as a student. I see him a various functons in Searcy now and then, unfortunately mostly funerals.

Anita Fuller

Nov 28, 2009 08:26 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Anita, he may have been there so long that he bought from the Martins. It is a very convenient house for Harding professors.

Nov 28, 2009 11:11 AM