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Conduct a Public Hearing to Consider/Discuss/Act on the Request by Jim and Eileen Ryan for Approval of a Historic Marker for the House Located at 615 West Lamar Street.
Summary
MEETING DATE: January 11, 2012
DEPARTMENT: Planning/Historic Preservation
CONTACT: Guy R. Giersch, Historic Preservation Officer
Kevin Spath, AICP, Assistant Director of Planning
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff is recommending approval of a Historic Marker for 615 West Lamar Street.
PRIORITY RATING: The property is listed as a medium priority building according to the 1985 Historic Resource Survey. A medium priority building contributes to local history or broader historical patterns, but alterations have diminished its integrity.
ITEM SUMMARY: On January 3, 2012, the applicant submitted the necessary documentation to apply for a Historic Marker for the house at 615 West Lamar Street.
The purpose of the Historic Marker Program is to encourage owners of historic properties to become actively involved in the preservation of McKinney’s historic past through the recognition of historic events, people, and architecture. The applicant has submitted a written narrative relating history of the various families that have resided at 615 West Lamar Street and the role they have played in McKinney’s history.
The Houston-Ryan House, a 1½ story Queen Anne/Stick-Style (Eastlake) home located at 615 West Lamar Street, was constructed in 1899 by Cebe Houston and his wife Alma Frances Hill (married December 16, 1896). Cebe was in the grocery business in McKinney until the family moved to Dallas in 1902. The Houston’s sold the house to Dr. and Mrs. William Ervin Rucker that same year.
Dr. Rucker graduated in 1892 from Vanderbilt University Medical School and went on to complete post-graduate work at New Orleans Polytechnic. He moved to McKinney to practice medicine in 1900. Dr. Rucker was the official doctor for the western terminus of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company...
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