This stucco-covered 1920’s era bungalow of solid brick construction was built by Mr. and Mrs. Cumby Cartwright from the brick taken from the chimneys of Mr. Cartwright’s father’s home, which originally stood on the site.

The Griffith-West home is located on a site of historical importance in the history of Terrell – the corner of Johnson and First Street, where was originally built about 1876 the home of Jasper and Susan Johnson, developers of Johnson Addition in Terrell. The home was built in 1909 as an architectural style of Colonial Revival, made popular in the Connecticut Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893. The original internal floor plan was essentially unchanged, although with some more modern conveniences.

This Tudor Revival House was built in 1928. The home was designed by Dallas architectural firm, Fooshee and Cheek. It was the home of city alderman and commissioner, Walter Peck Allen, and his wife, America Cartwright. Mr. Allen was instrumental in transitioning the city to a city manager form of government. A banker, Mr. Allen was an organizer and later president of American National Bank. He also helped ensure Terrell was one of the Royal Air Force training locations during WWII.

This Victorian house was built in 1887 for J.O. Terrell. Mr. Terrell was a newspaper editor, poet, orator, lawyer, judge, State Senator, candidate for Governor of Texas and stepson of R.A. Terrell, for whom the town is named. He sold the home to Jarvis Family in 1985.

Col. Ned Green, president of the Texas Midland Railroad and only son of the richest woman in the world, Hetty Green, rented a room in this Queen Anne Victorian house from the Jarvis family for $25 a month for 20 years. He stored a wooden leg and a pair of trousers in an armoire to claim Terrell as his residence for tax purposes.

The Approaching Herd is a reproduction of a 1902 painting of a herd of Texas Longhorn cattle by renowned Western artist and Terrell resident Frank Reaugh.

Terrell was a great circus town, and the railroads made it easy for the circus to come to town. At times, the population of the town would double on circus day.



1893 was a year of great financial panic, so the Sells Brothers Circus (one of the two largest circuses in the country at that time) cut their admission to fifty cents a person and people flooded in. At the time of the parade prior to the circus, there were an estimated 10,000 persons packed on Moore Avenue between Frances and Virginia Streets, on the side streets, and at the railroad depot. As the poster shows, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show came to Terrell with the circus!



At the far end of the mural, there is a depiction of this scene described in an article from the local paper: “W.E. Lumpkin, proprietor of the Splendid Grocery, being well aware of the weakness of country people for cheese and crackers, provided 300 pounds of the former and several boxes of the latter. Before noon, the whole supply was gone! When it is remembered that nearly every grocery establishment in the city was likewise provided it may be conjectured what an immense amount of cheese and crackers was devoured by the crowd on that day.”



Mural painted by Sunny Delipsey.

Photo provided by Prouty Photography in Terrell, Tx.

This mural was painted by Sunny Delipsey and was sponsored by The Terrell Heritage Society and a generous donor.

This mural was painted on the side of the Terrell Volunteer Fire Department at the southwest corner of South Frances and the Railroad tracks. The mural celebrates Terrell Volunteer Fire Department’s long time relationship with the City of Terrell as the city’s only fire department for many years. Shown in the fire truck on the right is former Volunteer Fire Chief John R. Briggs and in the fire truck on the left, former longtime volunteer fireman Dowell Harper. This mural was painted by Sunny Delipsey and was sponsored by The Terrell Heritage Society.

This mural is dedicated to the No. 1 British Flying Training School (BFTS) located here in Terrell. The flight training school was established in 1941 to train British flyers who due to the Nazi blitz, could not train in England. The school operated until the end of WWII in 1945.



The biplane pictured would have been the first aircraft a cadet would train in during his course at No.1 BFTS. The designation PT stood for “Primary Trainer”. During World War II thousands of British pilots learned to fly at six civilian training schools located in the United States, the first of these being located in Terrell, Texas. During the middle years of the war some US Army Air Corps cadets also trained at No. 1 along with their Royal Air Force (RAF) comrades. British graduates, a total of around 1,470 receiving their wings in Terrell, went on to fly in every theatre in which the RAF fought. Many never lived to see the end of the war, twenty died during flight training here and are buried in Oakland Memorial Cemetery in Terrell. Terrell citizens welcomed the student pilots to their community and many life-long bonds were forged. This mural was painted by local artists who were members of the North East Texas Fine Art Alliance, who donated their time and efforts to complete the mural and was a community effort sponsorship. NETFAA dedicated the mural to the citizens of Terrell upon its completion.





To left of the Stearman biplane mural is the map of England superimposed over a map of Texas representing the unity of purpose in the war effort. This painting is actually based on a flight training map with Terrell and London occupying the same spot on the map. The original map is currently on display at Terrell’s No.1 British Flying Training School Museum. This Mural was painted by Sunny Delipsey and was sponsored by The Terrell Heritage Society.

The Sears house was built in 1910 from a kit purchased through the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog. Josephus Autrey built the house for his wife and five children. The house kit, which sold for $1,764, was Design No. 118 with a few modifications – dormers, an enlarged porch and a porte cochere. Sadly, Autrey died just a few years after the house was built and his family moved out soon after.