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Now wasn't that a good history lesson!
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14 Comments on The rest of the story. The tale of a split house with both sides still standing. Searcy Arkansas.
Barbara, that is dang interesting----I don't care what Nutsy says. Notice how the siding on the two ends that were connected have matching siding that doesn't match the rest of the house---either house? Cool.
That is a MOST fascinating story....and one I did not know! I can hardly wait to get to Searcy and drive by them, all three. I can't get a handle on the Lightle house, though. Is it the one on Race Street that used to be a bed and breakfast or maybe still is? I can't tell by your angle. Shouldn't it be facing Race Street?
The next quaint little house you need to feature belonged to Miss Angie Mae Dellinger....but you may have blogged it already. I've already forgotten what I ate for breakfast this morning.
Thanks to Jessica Ray Hawkins for the history lesson.
I learn the most interesting stuff on your blog, Barbara. I never knew a house could be split in two like that. But from your photos, it surely looks like it had. I suppose it's a lot cheaper to move half of a house than an entire house. This is right up there with Africa separating from South America.
Charles, I think the blue house probably has 1800's wood and the other has had siding put over the old wood.
Anita, glad you liked it. I didn't know the whole truth either til Jessica told me. Where did Miss Dellinger live? The picture I took of the Lightle house is actually from the side street.
Liz, you make it sound really important!! I liked this story myself and it was new to me.
A couple of notes on Bruce Chandler a previous owner of the blue house at 607 E. Vine. Bruce is one of my favorite characters from growing up in Searcy. He and his father ran a little store called "The Biggest Little Store in the Whole Wide World" on W. Market AKA "spit and whittle" street. My mother's dining car was just a few yards behind the store on N. Spruce http://activerain.com/blogsview/855243/jim-s-dining-car-from-old-searcy-arkansas . Every day, about nine, Allen's Bakery would deliver pies. Every day at ten (you could set your watch by it) Bruce would walk out their back door and into the diner. He would stroll to the end of the counter and grab a slice of pecan pie from the cabinet. Then he'd stick his head into the kitchen and yell "Hi, 'Veronie'!" and proceed behind the counter to the register where he left his nickle and dime for the pie on top of the till. Then straight out the door munching on the pie as he went back to their store. During the whole trip he never once broke stride. At night he delighted in embarrassing the teenager Sue by answering the phone with: "Good evening. White County jail". It was usually one of Sue's friends on the other end. (Thanks to Anita for reminding me of the nick-names of the store and street.)
OOPS. The Chandlers lived at 407 E. Vine not 607 as my fat finger typed. Also, if anyone follows the link for Jim's dining car, you'll need to scroll down to where I discussed the location and owners of the two diners in town to find the diner on N. Spruce.
Bob C.
Bob, thanks for your contribution to this blog. I knew absolutely nothing about the Chandler fellow. Perhaps someone can tell us even more about him. You make him sound like quite a character with a great sense of humor. I gotta go back and review my own blog!
I thought about combining the pictures of the two housess but the angles were wrong from Barbara's pics and Google. I got interested in house moving and found this video.
Anyway, interesting story and comments from everyone.
Don, that was an interesting video. Wonder where that house was. Around here and probably everywhere, it costs so much to move a house that you can practically get the house given to you.
Godmother,
My great uncles house was once split in two by a lightning strike. It was hit and it came down, cut in half, with branches from both sides of the tree knocking down other trees. It was very dramatic and traumatic.
Nutsy
you always come up with the most interesting photos
Nutsy, your memory is good. I'll bet that tree was the one that got hit in Georgia and killed two girls who were under the tree seeking shelter from hanging out clothes. I can't forget it either. It was traumatic because one was my good friend.
Sad Godmoma B
Alan, my photos come from contributors and I love the old photos. Except these I took myself and even my old friends didn't know this story. I patted myself on the back!
To everyone, a correction. Jessica has told me that the house on the corner that forced the removal of the smaller one was the Tom Watkins house, not the Lightle house.