This unusual two-story fieldstone house resembles a Swiss chalet with its wide-eaved, steeply pitched gable roof intersecting the main hipped block. The long second floor section covered in asbestos shingles was originally an open porch which was enclosed in 1937. The house has a full hipped porch supported by stone columns. Although Thomas W Wren, a claim agent for the Northern Texas Traction Co., purchased this property between 1901 and 1905, he did not build this house until 1925. In 1941 Charles S. Hall opened Hall’s Garden Nursery here. Adjacent to the house is a one-story nursery building with a two-story tower framed in concrete and faced with both limestone and sandstone. The tower probably stored water for the nursery business.
