1003 W Oak - West Denton Residential Historic District - Denton, TX
N 33° 12.932 W 097° 08.551
14S E 673107 N 3676718
Known as the James Newton and Eva Tabor Rayzor House, the Prairie-style house at 1003 W Oak St is a contributing building in the West Denton Residential Historic District.
Waymark Code: WM14AZ2
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/01/2021
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While this house is a Registered Texas Historic Landmark and has a
Texas Historical Marker of its own, the National Register's Registration Form notes its 1909 construction, and provides an alternate narrative:
James Newton Rayzor was born in 1858 in Lockport, Kentucky, and came to Texas in 1866 with his family and settled in Collin County. Rayzor was involved in many business ventures including the Alliance Mill (now Morrison Milling Co.), Alliance Ice Company and the Rayzor Ice Company. He was a member of the John B. Denton College Committee that founded the School in 1901 and helped in establish the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University). Rollin and Barbara Singer purchased the house in 1978, helped restore the house and joined 19 other families in rezoning the property from multi-family zoning to return to single-family zoning as an initial step to support the neighborhood in preservation and as a family community.
This Prairie style home features horizontal lines, exaggerated overhanging eaves and a hipped roof over the second-story bedrooms. Ribbons of windows line the south and southeast side of the home, and repetitive millwork and tongue-and-groove oak floors complement the interior. This Prairie style house features two stories with a low pitched, hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves. The first story porch is symmetrical with a wing on the left. The façade detailing
emphasizes the porch eve, supported by two massive, square porch piers. Horizontal lines feature focus on the porch and upper eaves for the principal two-story mass. The off-centered door is the focal point of the full-length porch.