10/09/2024
619 South Sycamore Street, Palestine, Texas 75801
$ 550,000, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3,883 sq.ft
The stately Alfred Ryland Howard Home was built by local brick manufacturer/contractor, Daniel N. Darling, on land (in the Reagan and Word Addition) purchased from the Texas and American Statesman, John Henniger Reagan (a surveyor, a lawyer, a politician, originally from Tennessee). It has been noted that the land was purchased by Howard's first wife, Georgiana Grainger Howard (from Houston, Texas), 'out of her own separate money.' Howard, Pennsylvania-born, and his wife, together, raised their three boys (Alfred, George, David) until her untimely passing in 1896. Howard later married Katie Black and together they enlarged and remodeled the home in 1899. The 1899 changes included the addition of a cupola (later removed and the current owner recently replaced it) and a 2-story veranda on the south (Park Street side); the veranda was enclosed by glass in 1985 (by the Converse Family).