4939 Worth Street

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Sponsored by Ripley Renovations & New View Roofing

In the fall of 1913, construction began on this splendid two story, twelve room, brick veneer home for roughly $9,000. Originally envisioned as a boarding home for prominent Dallas insurance attorney, John S. Patterson, who was named the Texas Commissioner of Banking and Insurance when his close friend James Ferguson became Governor of Texas in 1915. Patterson subsequently left Dallas for his post in Austin and met his untimely end in a bank in Teague in 1916 where he was shot while serving a notice to the bank President. Patterson’s close friend and fellow attorney, Cullen F. Thomas, took over the home in 1915. After initially being the residence of lawyers, the home was converted and used as an apartment building with multiple entrances. In 1978, the house was reverted back into a single family home as you see today.

While renovating, the current owners ensured that original architectural features were preserved. These include the beautiful wood trim, columns with bookcases, multitude of transoms above doorways, heart-pine wood floors in the exterior upstairs rooms, tiled drip dry closet in the laundry room, and the white-tiled fireplace in the primary suite. This family has been enjoying the spaces that mark the home’s biggest changes including the dream chef’s kitchen and luxurious primary washroom. Before you leave, don’t be spooked by the ode to a spirit that resides in the house that hangs on the entry wall.