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Photographer: Kayla Harper
Taken: August 3, 2020
Caption: Additional Caruth House sign
Additional Description: In 2000, Communities Foundation of Texas purchased the Caruth Homeplace and began creating plans to restore the historic property. From the earliest days of Dallas, the Caruth Homeplace - also historically called Caruth Hill - had been the family home and farm headquarters of one of Dallas' most prominent families. As farmers, ranchers, business leaders, developers, builders, and community leaders, the Caruth Family reflected and made Dallas history. Most significantly, the family gave back through their remarkable philanthropic commitments and endowments, the latter managed today by Communities Foundation of Texas. William Barr Caruth and his wife Mattie Worthington Caruth built the original Victorian home, called the Main House, in the 1870's. In 1938, their only child, William Walter Caruth (Will, Sr.) and his wife Earle Clark Caruth completely renovated the home to create a stately Neoclassical exterior with two-story Ionic columns. Completed in 2010, the Caruth Homeplace Project fully restored the home and its immediate grounds to honor the Caruth Family and celebrate Dallas history, while serving the CFT mission to empower philanthropy and meet community needs.
Submitted: August 7, 2020, by Kayla Harper of Dallas, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p533972
File Size: 0.786 Megabytes

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