This house was built by Dr. John Moore, the Van Alstyne and surrounding area's General Practitioner over 100 years ago and is still standing. He had (reportedly) the first radio in the area, and people from Grayson, Fannin, & Cooke Counties (at least) would come to sit in the basement and listen to Dr. Moore's radio. The right rear room of the basement had a large sliding door on tracks, and the Dr. would unhitch his horses from his buggy, then stall the horses in the north area of the room before pushing his buggy straight in.

The Doctor would see his patients in the residence. The great room inside the front door was his Clinic's waiting room, while he used the room on the north end of it as his treatment room. He reportedly delivered all of Van Alstyne's (Mantua's) children in that room. Behind the house just to the right side of the rear drive entrance was a large barn with six stalls, grain storage bin, and rear door opening to the stock lot behind. Just to the north of the barn was a brick house for his domestic help to live in. It reportedly was the same brick as the Doctor's home.

The main house had a porch that ran from the right front corner to left rear corner of it, with a roof over the front porch and the back end of the side porch to just shelter movement from the side door to the stairs. The left rear room on the second floor was a kitchen as well as the room below it. At one time there were fireplaces in every bedroom. The main chimney had four fireplaces running off of it - two downstairs back to back, and two directly above them on the second floor back to back. In the left rear basement room there was a coal chute in the rear wall. There was a utility basement fireplace in the second chimney that went up through the kitchens.

The basement, first, & second floors all have the same floor plan, a "U" shape with a great expansive room across the front of the house and a square room on the left rear, and right rear corners. The attic is one large expanse that has such clearance that you can walk upright over the majority.

 My parents moved my brother, Stephen & me into the house from Richardson, Tx. in August 1969 and we owned it until 2000.

The original address was 523 S.E. Main St.