Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Christmas in A Small Town

Aldinger/Cartwright Home - 505 Griffith Av
The Victorian Cartwright/Aldinger home was fashioned after the lovely homes the owner and builder, Matthew Cartwright had visited while at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tn. It was begun in 1883 and completed in 1894 when the porches were added. Built of the very best material that could be had at that time, it has two full stories and a third, or attic, with two finished rooms and dormer windows. There are nine fireplaces.

In 2007, present owners Tom and Nancy Aldinger began an extensive restoration, including new support for the porches, a new roof, and renovation, including enlarging the kitchen/breakfast room, a new master bedroom laundry room, mud room, three bathrooms and a garage with two bathrooms.

The home is a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Christmas in a Small Town 2011


Friday, January 21, 2011

Appreciation for underwriting the Digitization Project


Laura Hughes - Kaufman County Clerk


Aldinger Grandchildren visiting from Connecticut, Dallas and Denver


Note from Patty Cartwright Mays - Granddaughter of Matthew Cartwright - daughter of youngest child/son Bourke Cartwright

I received this note from Patty in May of 2010.
Nancy, Happy Mothers Day!
woke up early this morning and found your e-mail. It started me thinking about time frame of the history of your house. I was born and Mary Davenport Cartwright died in l937. Her daughter Jerome C. Head moved back to Terrell (she was widowed) and moved in with her mother. Prior to WW2 Mary and Clarence moved back to Terrell. At that time the house was divided in two. A Dallas architect planned the division (you know more about that than I do) . I used to visit the aunts all the time. It was a short walk from my house on the corner of Griffith and Walnut past Uncle Matthew's house on the corner of Griffith and Grace Lane. Can also remember watching "Old Jim" milk the cow in the barn behind your house and walking with him to deliver a pail of milk to Uncle Matthew and Aunt Emily. And the memories go on and on. Annother thing of note. My father fought in WWI---the only one of the sons young enough to go. After a tour of colleges: USTAustin ( I think he majored in KA) University of Missouri, and Columbia in NY, he joined up and wanted to go. He fought in the trenches and served with the occupation forces. He never talked about the horrors he saw. He made it home and married my beautiful and elegant mother. I was born when they were 41 and 43. He served on the School Board for years before I entered the system. There were 2 National Merit Schholars in my graduating class! Unbelievable. E-mails are supposed to be short and I've gone on and on. I hear that Riter Hulsey is in great health. He was my boss when I worked in the bank. Give him my best. I interviewed with the CIA, Daddy was not impressed when the FBI agent visited his barber to do a background check. He forbade me to even consider a return to W ashington, instead I worked at ANB until I married. Enough! Still consider it a huge blessing that you are in that house filled with so many joyful memories. Patty