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Michael Spellman. Click on the photo for a larger image.

  
 

 

Michael Spellman home. Click on the photo for a larger view.
  
 
Michael Spellman's House
  
 
Michael Spellman home as it looks today. Click on the photo for a larger view.
  
 

The Spellman home as it looks today.

  
     
 

Located at 400 S. Center St, this house was built in 1896 by R.P. Rhea and designed by architect E.H. Silver, of Dallas. Michael and Carrie Spellman bought the house from Mr. Rhea in 1908. It was originally built as a "gingerbread" Victorian, but by 1908 the Victorian style was coming to be viewed as dated and the Spellmans removed the "Gingerbread" trim, replacing it with Classical Revival elements.

Mick Spellman takes pride in telling people that he was born in this house. "Right there in that lower left room," he says!

  
       
Photos and information taken from Jerry M. Flook's
Forney Country: A History of Northwestern Kaufman County.
©1998. Used by permission.

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