Aldridge House

Aldridge House. . Located in Haggard Park, Planos first residential neighborhood and only locally-designated heritage district, the Aldridge House was built in 1918 for Charles "C.C." Aldridge (1873-1950), his wife, Elizabeth (Armstrong) Aldridge (1877-1964), and their family. Born to early Plano settlers and landowners J.K. and Maria (Lively) Aldridge, C.C. attended Trinity University's first campus at Tehuacana., C.C. Aldridge was an innovator and regional leader in the cotton industry. At Aldridge Seed Farms, he developed a pedigreed long-staple cotton hybrid. During the 1930s he promoted extending credit to struggling farmers to purchase premium cottonseed. C.C. and Elizabeth became leaders in the community and at Plano Presbyterian Church. Elizabeth was the first president of the Plano parent-teacher association and president of the Thursday Study Club, a literary organization. C.C. served on the Plano school board and city council, and advocated for the Plano Good Roads Club and road improvements in north Texas and Oklahoma., In 1910. Aldridge purchased an 1890 house on this lot from Col. William M. Weaver, an early settler and farmer. In 1918, the house was either completely remodeled or was dismantled and a new house constructed in prairie style with mission style architectural details. The structure is a two-story clapboard house with two brick chimneys, a low-pitched roof with wide eaves and ribbon windows forming a horizontal band across the front of the house. A wide one story porch across the front extends to form a porte-cochere on the south side. Cornice-line wood brackets in the mission style emphasize the corners. As the only example of prairie style architecture in the Haggard Park Heritage District, the Aldridge House stands as a tangible reminder of the agricultural heritage of the people who shaped the development of the area. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2019.