The Fudge Home 316 N. Waddill Street 
A special and happy home sitting on the corner of Waddill and Lamar in the Historic District is this wonderfully large Colonial Revival 3000 SF home with a grand entrance, large family room and 4 large bedrooms. Built in 1950, Side Gabled roof and rectangular double hung sashes are characteristic of Colonial Revival architecture. Each window sash has 6 panes of glass. Homes of this era have the characteristic of solid, thick, hardwood floors, large rooms and sound construction. Above the pier and beam foundation you will find the home constructed of heart pine with few knot holes and each 2 x 4 was a true two inch by four inch board, tightly grained aged pine. Today's world we have 2 x 4's that are 1.75" by 3.5" that do not posses the strength and beauty of the older pine. Carpenters in the earlier part of the 20th Century were skilled with construction techniques not seen in today's rapidly thrown up homes. Each board was carefully measured, hand sawed and hand nailed in to place. The original architectural drawings of the home are available.
This Colonial Revival home is one of a kind in Historic McKinney; few homes will ever be on the market of its statue and presence. If you are interested in the beauty and the comfortable serenity a historical home offers, you need to make an offer and began the process of actually owning a home that has character, presence and strength.. I wish the walls could talk and tell me what they have seen over the many years is has reigned on this street. They would probably tell me about the time that President Johnson toured McKinney and drove down Waddill Street during his Presidency.
As a side note: Waddill St. was named after Judge R.L. Waddill, an early District Judge in McKinney, who built a school in his backyard and hired West Point graduate, Anson Mills to teach, not only his children, but any McKinney child who wished to attend.
Waddill St. is also part of the original Peter's Colony that was first approved by the Texas Congress in 1841. By 1845, the Colony had expanded to include the middle of Grayson County to the top half of the present Ellis County (south of Dallas). The boundary then went due West one hundred and sixty-four miles, through present Johnson, Hood, Earth and Eastland Counties, ending in the middle of present Callahan County. From there, the boundary went north for about one hundred and forty miles, taking in all of the present Shackleford County, and all but the western extremities of present Throckmorton, Baylor, and Wilbarger Counties before the boundary line closed on the Red River. Denton County was almost the eastern edge of a gigantic tract of over eleven million acres.
MLS No. 10892399. Price is $321,000 Bob Smith 214-263-0816
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