The buildings that made Dallas: Millermore Mansion | marklamster
, the portico-fronted ranch house of the Ewing family in the 1980s primetime soap, although that house isn’t actually in Dallas, but in Parker, about 45 minutes north of the city line.The answer is simple. Dallas would not exist without Millermore, at least not as the metropolis that it is today. The story of the growth of Dallas from a small town on the prairie into a major American city runs straight through Millermore’s front door, with a stop on its pleasant, shaded verandah.
Having assembled his property, Miller left to retrieve his family and possessions from Sedalia, on the road between St. Louis and Kansas City, in Missouri. He barely made it. According to his son Dick, a group of kindly Native Americans found him on the route, emaciated and nearly dead from fever. They nursed him back to health and sent him on his way. Years later, after Millermore was built, the chief who had rescued him came to visit, but refused to sleep indoors.
The fencing job took so much time that work didn’t begin on the Big House until 1855, and construction was slow, owing to a paucity of materials. There was no Home Depot in frontier Dallas, no purveyor of upscale building materials for a fashionable home. Much of the lumber came by ox-cart from Jefferson, in East Texas. Cedar beams were cut locally and put together with pegs. The stone for the chimneys was quarried nearby, but it took time.Who designed it? There was no architect.
This was not Miller’s first foray into transit planning. Crossing the muddy and unpredictable waters of the Trinity was a persistent challenge for the settlers of early Dallas. Just after the Civil War, in 1866, Miller formed the Honey Springs Ferry Company to provide service across the river. To run the operation, he turned to Henry Critz Hines, the formerly enslaved man who Miller had brought with him as chattel when he came to Texas.
The descendants of the enslaved families that settled in Joppa convene every year to celebrate their heritage, and they can take some satisfaction in the current state of affairs. Joppa still stands. Its isolation, between the railroad and the Trinity, has always been both its curse and its salvation: it has meant a long history of neglect and intermittent abuse and exploitation, but it has also been protective. The little enclave, out of sight and mostly out of mind, has persevered and grown.
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