Denton Things to Do Tips by grandmaR

Because I had the AAA book for Texas, I knew that the museum in the courthouse was free. It was very interesting. But there were no photographs allowed in the museum, so all my pictures were taken from the hall. The main museum rooms have a collection of guns, dolls, baby furniture, Denton County furniture and Southwest American Indian pottery.

The people there in the museum thought my granddaughter would enjoy the Special Collections which has Thimbles from around the World, from the collection of Dr. Bethel Caster and Pecan Art: the Folk Art of B. W. Crawford - which includes some animals made from pecans.

Hours
Monday- Friday, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Saturday, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Closed Holidays and Holiday Weekends

Handicapped Accessible
Free Admission except for Organized Tours

Organized Tours - $1 per person which includes admission to all three museums. We didn't take the tour.

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Phone: 940-349-2850
Address: 110 West Hickory -- Denton, TX 76201
Directions: Located in historic 1896 Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square
Website: http://dentoncounty.com/dept/main.asp?Dept=72

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The Oak-Hickory Historic District, just blocks from the downtown Courthouse, is a collection
of historic homes along West Oak & West Hickory Streets built by wealthy merchants
and is an integral part of the history of Denton. Victorian architectural themes prevail,
but the neighborhood presents a fairly eclectic mix of architectural styles. Established
in 1986, the district has the largest concentration of Historic Landmark Designations in
the City

705 W. Oak
DESIGNATED: 1/7/1981
YEAR BUILT: 1905
STYLE: Italianate Victorian *

LOCATION: 722 W. Oak
DESIGNATED: 1/7/1981
YEAR BUILT: 1906
STYLE: Italian Villa*

723 W. Oak
DESIGNATED: 1/7/1981
YEAR BUILT: 1898
STYLE: Victorian/
Byzantine-Gothic

812 W. Oak
DESIGNATED: 1/7/1981
YEAR BUILT: 1936
STYLE: Tudor*

Tudor/Tudor revival
The defining characteristics of the Tudor-style are half-timbering on bay windows and upper floors, and facades that are dominated by one or more steeply pitched cross gables. Patterned brick or stone walls are common, as are rounded doorways, multi-paned casement windows, and large stone chimneys. A subtype of the Tudor Revival style is the Cotswold Cottage. With a sloping roof and a massive chimney at the front, a Cotswold Cottage may remind you of a picturesque storybook home.

Davenport-Ivey House
819 W. Oak

In 1885, the original owner built a compact, two-story brick house. A later owner, Robert Hann, played a prominent role in establishing what would become the University of North Texas. After 1905, owner B.H. Davenport doubled the size of the original house, and Ben Ivey made further changes in 1946. The result is the present large structure, which echoes Spanish mission style.

Spanish Colonial
This style dominated North American Mission architecture for 200 years. Spanish Colonial revival is a catalog of styles, unified by the use of arches, courtyards plain wall surfaces, and tile roofs, all derived from the Mediterranean world. Designers were inspired by a number of sources: the adobe and colonial buildings of Monterey, California; late forms of Moorish architecture; medieval Spanish and Italian church architecture; Ultra-Baroque design of colonial Spain and Portugal; rural forms from Andalusia; Italian Romanesque and Renaissance revival elements; and southwest Hopi and Pueblo Indian adobes.

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Phone: 940-349-8529
Address: W Oak St, Denton 76266
Directions: Drive west on Oak Street (which is one way) from Courthouse Square, and then go East on Hickory which is one way in the other direction
Website: http://www.dentonedp.com/downtown_development/pdf/Denton_Driving_Tour_2007.pdf