619 S SYCAMORE ST

THIS HOME IS AMAZING! The “A.R. Howard Home,” a two-sto- ry, Victorian Italianate-style house located in Historic Pales- tine, Texas. The stately Alfred Ryland Howard Home was built by local brick manufacturer, Daniel N Darling, on land (in the Reagan and Word Addition) purchased from the Texas and American Statesman, John Henniger Reagan. It has been not- ed that the land was purchased by Howard’s first wife, Geor- giana Grainger Howard, “out of her own separate money”. Howard, Pennsylvania-born, and his wife raised their 3 boys (Alfred, George, David) until her untimely passing in 1896. Howard later married Katie Black and enlarged/remodeled the home in 1899. The 1899 changes included the addition of a cupola & a 2-story veranda on the south (Park St) that was enclosed by glass in 1985 (Converse). Howard’s wife, Katie, an Arkansas native, oversaw the formation of the local D.A.R March 1906.