DUANE
Duane's take
Here's how the official marker tells it, and I'll do my best to do it justice. Now, if you were rollin' through Tarrant County back around the turn of the twentieth century, and you found yourself on a street lined with the grand Victorian homes of bankers, businessmen, cattlemen, lawyers, physicians, and publishers — well, you'd know right away you weren't on just any street. The neighbors had taken to callin' it Quality Hill, and that name had a way of sayin' everything that needed sayin'.
The crown jewel of that neighborhood was built in 1898 for a man named Dr. Joseph R. Pollock — born 1856, and he'd live all the way to 1941, so he had plenty of years to appreciate fine construction.
The place wasn't just a house. It was a mansion. And on the grounds — now hold on, because this is where it gets good — on the grounds they had a golf course.
A tennis court. And a three-car garage. But the garage wasn't content to just be a garage.
No sir. Above it, they put a ballroom. Because when you live on Quality Hill, you don't just park your automobiles — you dance above them.
Dr. Pollock eventually sold the mansion to a man named William Capps — born 1858 — and his wife Sallie, born 1864. William and Sallie moved their family in come 1909, and that family held onto this place for sixty-two years, all the way to 1971.
Sallie herself lived to 1946, long enough to see several generations call those grand rooms home. Sixty-two years. One family.
One mansion on a hill full of Victorian grandeur, with a golf course out back and a ballroom floating above the cars. Quality Hill earned its name, and the Pollock-Capps House made sure nobody forgot it.
What the marker says
Built in 1898 for Dr. Joseph R. Pollock (1856-1941), this mansion was sold to William Capps (1858-1925) and wife Sallie (1864-1946), whose family lived here 1909 to 1971. On the grounds were a golf course, tennis court, and a 3-car garage with a ballroom above. This was in a neighborhood lined with Victorian homes of bankers, businessmen, cattlemen, lawyers, physicians,and publishers, and was nicknamed "Quality Hill".