This Chateauesque style house was constructed about 1936; Ella Waggoner, widow of W. T. Waggoner, the Fort Worth oil baron and cattle king, purchased the property in 1937. The house was constructed by A. C. Luther to the design of Patterson & Teague. The large, two-story house has a steeply pitched hip roof clad in wood shingles, flanked by one- story receding hipped wings at each end. A central, two-story projecting bay with stone gabled parapet contains the arched entry with stone surrounds; stone quoins highlight exterior corners of the house. The house appears to be in good condition, except that the brick has been painted a monochrome white. Doris Smith Penrose and her husband, Nevile G. Penrose, president of Neville G. Penrose, Inc., an oil producer, owned the house from 1945 until 1977.
