Victorian home in Searcy AR now used as Homeless Shelter.

Barbara, what is the address of the house?  It looks familiar but I cannot place it.

Searcy does have lots of old, interesting houses.  I wonder if it has more that most other town of similar size?  The town I remember as having lots of interesting old houses was Tuckerman, up Hwy 67 from Searcy.

Okay, now i have it placed.  But I still don't remember ever knowing anyone who lived there.  Maybe Anita, and her fantastic menory, can come up with more information.

Barbara, re your latest comment under the Jim's Dining Car thread, sorry can't help you with information on this house. However, I agree with your observation that too many old homes in Searcy have been torn down. I took a Google 'street view' tour of the city. After looking around I came to the conclusion that Searcy's interpretation of the highest and best use doctrine of real estate is to tear down whatever is there and build a parking lot. This seems to be particularly true if the land is near a church.

Barbara, the shelter is called Jacob's Place and welcomes donations. 

Barbara, I don't have much to go on but I know there were lots of interesting houses that are now gone.  For example, directly across Market Street from the house shown above was a great old house which the Chandlers lived in.  And on Center Street west of downtown there were several interesting old houses which have all been destroyed.  But I'm not so sure another town of similar size would have very many more.   Correct, Searcy didn't have that many wealthy families, if fact, it sort of amazes me now when I come back to see how prosperous the town has become.

Keep up the good work.

Barbara, I can't keep up with the speed you put up these blogs.  I didn't see this one nor the Hank Williams one till this morning.  Loved them both.   Believe it or not, I don't know who lived in this beautiful old house, either.  I did have tea there when it was a tea room, and the owner's told me who once lived there but I've forgotten.  Obviously it wasn't any of my friends and I'm guessing the owners didn't have children who went to SHS or we would know where they lived. Maybe Dorothy Warden will know.

Harold Gene:  the house you called the Chandler house was where Jimmy Chandler and his mother lived, but they lived with Jimmy's grandmother, Mrs. Emmett Snipes at 302 E. Market, phone # 272-J.  Jimmy's mother taught school in grammar school, Ernestine Chandler.  I never had her as a teacher but Bob did, in 7th grade.  There were 3 7th grades: two in the old rock building next to the band room and the other was in the high school building.  We in the rock building had the most fun!  Marinell Stevens and Tannie Payroe were our teachers.

I agree that Searcy didn't have what we would call real weathly people building these large ostentatious homes like today.  There were certainly those a lot more wealthy than others, but they continued to live in modest homes, owned just one car, etc.   I will not mention by name some of the current movers and shakers of Searcy who have been instrumental in destroying the beautiful homes of Searcy to build parking lots, drugstores, etc. but I will go so far as to say they are associated with banks. They are not numbered among my dear friends.

Anita Fuller

While I'd like to take credit for a good memory, it ain't so, esp. for numbers.  I don't even know my social security number and never will.   I have a Searcy phonebook, 1957 and that's where I get the phone numbers.   And NO, I don't know my children's tel. numbers, I barely remember my own.  Isn't that what cell phones with their store numbers are for?

Anita Fuller