Stanfield House, 1910

Duane's take

Here's how the marker tells it, friends, and I'll do my best to do it justice. Now, out in Scurry County, there's a house that's been standing since 1910, and the story of how it came to be is the kind of thing you don't quite forget. Mrs.

W.B. Stanfield and her husband, a rancher, decided they were going to build a proper home. But here's where it gets interesting.

They didn't go hunting for some established firm in a city office with a brass nameplate on the door. No, they found themselves a drifting architect, just passing through, out of Fort Worth. A drifting architect.

You have to wonder about a man like that, what roads he'd traveled, what plans he'd drawn in how many counties. But Mrs. Stanfield, she knew exactly what she wanted.

She suggested the plans herself, and that architect, drifter or not, built them out into something worth remembering. Oak woodwork. Pine floors.

And leaded glass panels right there at the entry, greeting you before you even step inside. Details like that don't happen by accident. Someone cared.

Mrs. Stanfield cared, and the house shows it. She went on to occupy that home for over fifty years.

Over fifty years in the same walls, the same pine floors, the same light coming through those leaded glass panels. Some houses are built to impress. This one was built to last, and it did.

What the marker says

Occupied over 50 years by Mrs. W.B. Stanfield, who with her husband, a rancher, built the home along plans she suggested to a drifting architect from Ft. Worth. Fine features include oak woodwork, pine floors, leaded glass panels at entry. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1964.